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....

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...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on January 30, 2019 “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron” is a DreamWorks animated movie...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on January 26, 2019 Yesterday, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) announced...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on January 20, 2019 I never knew her name, but I never forgot my chance encounter with...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on January 13, 2019; Updated at 2:30 p.m. EST Today, AL.com retracted and apologized for...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on December 6, 2018 Yesterday was “Senior Signing Day” at The University of Alabama’s...

Frank and Doris Conic owned and operated Conic Beauty and Barber Supply Company at 615 North Farish Street in Jackson, Mississippi from 1950 to 1975. They were also civil rights icons in Jackson from the 1940’s through the 1970s. They displayed incredible courage on a daily basis in the face of Mississippi’s hardcore, entrenched racism.

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on September 24, 2018 Dr. Isaac Scott Hathaway (1872–1967) was an American educator and...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on September 17, 2018 The little girl in the beach resort picture is Claudia Rose Watkins....

By: Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on September 11, 2018 Every time I think I have experienced the depth and breadth of...

By: Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on September 8, 2018 Lillian Bernice Varnado Watkins and her husband, Levi Watkins, Sr.,...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on August 19, 2018 Last spring, my daughter Claudia Rose Watkins was the team leader of...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on July 26, 2018; Updated on November 13, 2018 When I attended K-12 schools in racially...

Meet two distinguished Black women who inspire educational excellence all of the time. Their stories are captivating.

Published on June 13, 2018 During the past two months, many readers have asked me why I am so passionate about standing up for people who...

The Watkins family has been bridge builders in America since the 1830s. Bridge building is a noble calling. Its impact is generational.

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published (via Facebook) on March 9, 2017; Updated and Republished on April 3, 2018 Americans...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Originally Published (via Facebook) on October 28, 2015; Updated and Republished on November 20, 2017; Updated on August 11, 2023 Olivia and William Carmichael Family. My maternal grandmother, Oda Etta Carmichael, was born on January 12, 1890. Etta is the little girl who is standing next to her mother Olivia (second from the left on the front row) in the photo. My family’s story begins in the early 1800s when Dogold A. Carmichael and his

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published (via Facebook) on May 7, 2017 When I began my senior year in high school in September...