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Donald V. Watkins
Apr 82 min read
60 Years Ago, This Tennessee State University Student Demanded Academic Excellence at His College and Got It
By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on April 8, 2024 In Memoriam to Dr. Levi Watkins, Jr., MD -- June 13, 1944 to April 11,...
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Donald V. Watkins
Mar 62 min read
Denied Admission to UA Medical School, an Undeterred Levi Watkins, Jr., Soldiered On to Co-Develop the Cardioverter Defibrillator and Implant the First One in a Human Patient
By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on March 6, 2024 If you are one of the 200,000 heart patients each year who received an...
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Donald V. Watkins
Sep 1, 20234 min read
“VU Med School Gets 1st Negro”
By Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on May 28, 2019; Updated and Republished on September 1, 2023 On May 29, 1966, The...
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Donald V. Watkins
Aug 3, 20234 min read
A Watkins Family Gathering in Atlanta
By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on August 3, 2023 We met in Atlanta for three days last weekend. It was a family...
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Donald V. Watkins
Jul 3, 20236 min read
An Open Letter to My Grandchildren
By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on July 3, 2023 Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court banned affirmative action for black...
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Donald V. Watkins
Mar 8, 20235 min read
Women's History Month: Honoring the Life and Legacy of Lillian Bernice Varnado Watkins
By: Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on March 8, 2023 Lillian Bernice Varnado Watkins, the matriarch of the Watkins family,...
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Donald V. Watkins
Sep 25, 20205 min read
Breakthrough on the Navier-Stokes Equation
By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on September 25, 2020 To my colleagues Mr. Johann Jordan, Dr. Donatus O. Mbanefo, and Mr....
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Donald V. Watkins
Jul 21, 20195 min read
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
May 28, 20193 min read
“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
Apr 27, 20185 min read
The Bridge Builders
By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published (via Facebook) on August 30, 2016; Updated and Republished on April 27, 2018 The Bridge...
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