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

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said, "Don't let anybody take your manhood." Watkins men live by that creed.

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