Breaking News--- By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 31, 2019 This morning, the Jefferson County Department of Public Health announced tha...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 30, 2019 Dr. Zac Henson is a former Birmingham, Alabama-based social activist and scholar who proudly ...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 26, 2019 Yesterday, we stood in the 101-degree sweltering heat in front of 3240 Fayette Avenue in West...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 22, 2019 Yesterday, I published an article titled, “Thank you, Alabama Power Company.” The article co...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 21, 2019 Sherman Industries signaled today that it may not move its downtown concrete batch plant to t...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 21, 2019 Yesterday, I learned that Sherman Industries has no intention of withdrawing its plan to relo...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 19, 2019 Residents of the predominantly black Five Points West community of Birmingham, Alabama are de...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 16, 2019 Very few things in life shock me. The complicity of a millennial black mayor and predominant...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 14, 2019 On Monday night, Birmingham, Alabama mayor Randall Woodfin announced at a District 8 town hal...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 11, 2019 In 2014, nearly 100,000 residents of Flint, Michigan were exposed to dangerous levels of lead...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 10, 2019 On October 3, 2017, Randall Woodfin soundly defeated incumbent William Bell in the race for m...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 9, 2019 Birmingham, Alabama residents never paid much attention to Sherman Industries, LLC, before the...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 8, 2019 Sherman Industries has not withdrawn its application for an Air Permit from the Jefferson Coun...

Breaking News--- By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 7, 2019 Four months after learning about Sherman Industries plan to relocate its toxi...

An Exclusive Investigative Report By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 6, 2019 On October 3, 2017, Randall Woodfin won an impressive electi...

Exclusive Investigative Report By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 4, 2019 I watched the May 1, 2019 video of Birmingham Mayor Randall Woo...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 3, 2019 In May of 1933, Birmingham, Alabama City Engineer A.J. Hawkins released a city map that ranked...