Donald V. Watkins
“A Fire You Can’t Put Out” – Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth
By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on March 14, 2021 I loved them with all my heart. I received my winning lottery ticket...
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Donald V. Watkins
- Jul 31, 2019
- 5 min
Adam and Sallie Watkins: A legacy of Love
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on July 31, 2019 On July 21, 2019, I published an article titled, “Watkins Men Never...
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Donald V. Watkins
- Jul 29, 2019
- 1 min
Do You Want to Know What Love Is?
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on July 29, 2019 In the Watkins family, we have known what real love is for five...
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Donald V. Watkins
- Jul 25, 2019
- 5 min
The Love Between a Father and His Children
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on July 25, 2019 Last week, Alabama Media Group reporter/columnist Kyle Whitmire...
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Donald V. Watkins
- Jul 21, 2019
- 5 min
Watkins Men Never Surrender Their Manhood
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on July 21, 2019 During our highly publicized trials and tribulations over the past few...
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Donald V. Watkins
- Jul 20, 2019
- 9 min
Weathering the Storms of Adversity
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on July 20, 2019 State and federal agencies have used every resource at their disposal in...
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Donald V. Watkins
- Jul 17, 2019
- 5 min
Donald Watkins Jr. Smacks Down Kyle Whitmire
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on July 17, 2019 Kyle Whitmire hates the Watkins family and what it has achieved in...
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Donald V. Watkins
- Jul 14, 2019
- 5 min
The Sun Always Rises
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on July 14, 2019 My sentencing hearing is scheduled for Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. CST in...
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Donald V. Watkins
- Jun 27, 2019
- 4 min
Brenda Lee Thompson Carter: One of God’s Greatest Gifts to Humanity
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on June 27, 2016, Updated on June 27, 2019 Three years ago today, I drove to Montgomery,...
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Donald V. Watkins
- Jun 17, 2019
- 4 min
In the End, Judge Frank Johnson Needed Community Acceptance, Too
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on June 17, 2019 The 1954 Supreme Court decision in the case of Brown v. Board of...
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Donald V. Watkins
- Jun 16, 2019
- 4 min
Dr. Levi Watkins: The Father Who Taught Me How to be a Strong Man
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on June 16, 2019 My father was Levi Watkins. He was president of Alabama State...
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Donald V. Watkins
- May 28, 2019
- 3 min
“VU Med School Gets 1st Negro”
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 28, 2019 On May 29, 1966, The Tennessean (Nashville, Tennessee) published an...
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Donald V. Watkins
- May 10, 2019
- 5 min
A Mother’s Day Tribute to Lillian Bernice Varnado Watkins
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 10, 2019 Lillian Bernice Varnado Watkins, the matriarch of the Watkins Family, was...
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Donald V. Watkins
- Mar 26, 2019
- 6 min
Open Letter to the Children and Grandchildren of George C. Wallace, Jr.
March 26, 2019 Dear Wallace Family Members, Many things have been written and said about former Alabama Gov. George Corley Wallace, Jr. ...
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Donald V. Watkins
- Mar 9, 2019
- 3 min
We Feel Your Love
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on March 9, 2019 Yesterday, a federal jury in Birmingham, Alabama convicted me on all ten...
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Donald V. Watkins
- Feb 17, 2019
- 1 min
Opening Statements on Tuesday in Watkins Trial
Posted on February 17, 2019 Opening statements will kick off the start of the USA v. Donald V. Watkins, Sr. and Donald V. Watkins, Jr....
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Donald V. Watkins
- Feb 3, 2019
- 4 min
Rosa Parks Embodied Greatness and Service to Humanity
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on February 3, 2019 I have written on many occasions that Rosa Parks was a dear friend of...
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Donald V. Watkins
- Jan 30, 2019
- 2 min
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on January 30, 2019 “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron” is a DreamWorks animated movie...
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Donald V. Watkins
- Jan 26, 2019
- 4 min
Mike Schmitz Stood Up For The Disinvited
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on January 26, 2019 Yesterday, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) announced...
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Donald V. Watkins
- Jan 20, 2019
- 4 min
I Never Knew Her Name
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on January 20, 2019 I never knew her name, but I never forgot my chance encounter with...
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