By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on March 9, 2019 Yesterday, a federal jury in Birmingham, Alabama convicted me on all ten...

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 29, 2019 Brigadier General Royal Hatch was a retired Air Force officer. A...

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 January 3, 2019 From September 25 through October 9, 2002, I headed a three-person...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on December 31, 2018 As 2018 comes to an end in a few hours, I thought it was the...

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 8, 2018 Lillian Bernice Varnado Watkins and her husband, Levi Watkins, Sr.,...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on August 18, 2018 America’s midterm elections will be held in November of this year. ...

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

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

The Blue Angels' awesome display of airpower and in-flight maneuvers is a visible reminder of America’s superior military might. This airshow is also a reminder to the crowd in attendance that all 325 million Americans live in the greatest nation the world has ever known. 

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 on April 22, 2018 Alabama Governor George C. Wallace (left) greets a young Donald V....

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on April 12, 2018 On March 14, 2018, my attorney sent federal prosecutors in the...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on April 9, 2018 My businesses work closely with the U.S. State Department in the...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on April 6, 2018 On June 4, 1973, Jimmy Ray Hurst, a Lieutenant in the Talladega, Alabama...

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

On December 2, 1975, an unarmed Bernard Whitehurst was summarily executed by Montgomery, Alabama police officer Donnie Foster behind an abandoned house for no justifiable reason. This article is the story of Whitehurst's murder and the police department's unsuccessful effort to cover it up. This story is known as "Alabama's Watergate."