One upon a time, Black men had real courage. One of them is Dr. Joe L. Reed. This is his story.

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on January 24, 2023 An Editorial Opinion From 1981 to 2006, not a single one of Alabama’s...

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on December 21, 2022 An Editorial Opinion There is a firestorm of controversy involving a...

By: Donald V. Watkins October 30, 2022 An Editorial Opinion My October 22, 2022 Open Letter to Deion Sanders has already broken one...

Head Football Coach Jackson State University 1400 John R. Lynch Street Jackson, Mississippi 39217 Dear Coach Sanders, We have never met,...

By: Donald V. Watkins © Copyrighted and Published on March 3, 2020 Protesters held up signs and chanted "2-4-6-8, we don't want to...

Sidney T. Williams is the bravest law enforcement officer I have ever met. He protected my family in the 1970s like nobody else could.

Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., was the most hated man in Alabama’s white community in the 1950s, 60s, and early 70s. This is his story.

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on June 16, 2019 My father was Levi Watkins. He was president of Alabama State...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 10, 2019 Lillian Bernice Varnado Watkins, the matriarch of the Watkins Family, was...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on July 2, 2018; Republished January 29, 2021 [Author's Note: I am republishing this...

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