By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on August 28, 2022 Rosa Parks visits Lillian Varnado Watkins in her Montgomery, Alabama home. They were best friends and sisters in the civil rights movement for life. Most readers know that I grew up in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1950s and 60s. Many of the people I looked up to were community leaders who had criminal records in Alabama's local, state, and federal criminal justice systems. My childhood church pastor, Sunday Sc

By: Donald V. Watkins July 31, 2022 An Editorial Opinion Americans have been dismayed by WNBA star Brittney Griner's detention and...

By: Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on June 30, 2020 The imprisonment of those who challenge the status quo is a practice...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on July 23, 2019 A friend called me three weeks ago with word he received from a source...

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 December 31, 2018 As 2018 comes to an end in a few hours, I thought it was the...

©Copyrighted and Published on February 11, 2018 COINTELPRO was a secret counterintelligence program carried out by the Federal Bureau of...