By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted on June 28, 2026 Wall Street crashed in 1929. Experts predict it will crash again in 2026. An Editorial Opinion All of the signs are in plain view. America’s national debt is $39 trillion and surging. The nation is insolvent, as reported by the U.S. Department of Treasury. The U.S. Department of Treasury's latest financial report discloses that America is insolvent. In 2024, American voters gave a shady New York businessman with a record of 6 corporate bankruptcies and 21 other failed businesses a government-issued credit card with unlimited spending privileges. This man went on an unprecedented spending spree after the U.S. Supreme Court created presidential immunity out of thin air and conferred it upon him. Since Donald Trump assumed office in January 2025, 80% of all market gains in the U.S. has come from AI-related stocks. AI expenditures accounts for 92% of America's GDP growth. NVIDIA, the designer of the advanced computer chip at the heart of the AI boom, recently became the first company in history to be worth an estimated $5 trillion. For perspective, $5 trillion represents almost 20% of all U.S. GDP – in just a single stock! NVIDIA is the company that doesn’t own and operate a single factory or plant. Taiwan Semiconductor and other chip manufacturers build all of NVIDIA chips. NVIDIA just draws up the designs! So, the stock of one company that doesn’t make anything is worth a 20% of America’s GDP. Furthermore, one industry (AI) makes up 92% of the America’s GDP growth. That's not good. Many of today’s big AI companies are burning through cash at an alarming rate. For example, Open AI will need to accumulate $143 billion in negative cash flow before the company makes a single dollar in profit! That’s more money than the market cap of the "Big Three" U.S. automakers combined! Yet, Open AI plans to IPO the company for nearly a trillion dollars this year. Palantir has a P/E ratio of 222. Which means that if you bought this stock today it would take 222 years at its current earnings to make your money back! Elon Musk’s xAI has was burning through cash so fast it had to be merged with SpaceX just to keep the entire thing from going under. What is more, Anthropic is warning that its business could go bankrupt if AI growth forecasts are off by a year. We also have AI startups with no products and no revenue that are supposedly “worth” billions of dollars. Yet, according to MIT, 95% of corporate AI initiatives fail to produce any return on investment! Most of our nation’s wealth sits in just ten stocks and the first 8 of them are soaring, based almost solely on the hype surrounding AI. NVIDIA Corp (NVDA) Apple Inc. (AAPL) Microsoft Corp (MSFT) Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) Alphabet Inc. Class A (GOOGL) Broadcom Inc. (AVGO) Meta Platforms Inc. (META) Tesla Inc. (TSLA) Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Class B (BRK.B) Eli Lilly and Co (LLY) If America’s bet on the big AI doesn’t pay off soon, the whole financial system crashes. To make AI work, companies must spend trillions of dollars on data centers. They must borrow this money. For all practical purposes, this debt is AI-related subprime “junk debt” that is collateralized with special purpose real estate called data centers. This debt will be sold as Collateral Debt Obligations (CDO) and spread throughout the global financial system like subprime mortgages for houses were packaged as CDOs and sold in 2008. Once the loan defaults start occurring, as is likely, the whole financial system crashes, globally. The housing bubble burst in 2008 and caused the Great Recession of 2008. The Dot-com bubble and crash of 2002 is compared to the AI bubble and predicted crash of 2026. The AI "house of cards" is NOT sustainable. Investors, banks and sovereign wealth funds already know there are serious financial problems with AI companies. As such, they are trimming their positions and betting against it. An AI-related market correction or stock market crash is predicted in 2026. What is Washington doing about the growing AI-related financial mess? Absolutely nothing. How much American wealth will be wiped out on Wall Street during the predicted AI-related stock market crash? An estimated $30 trillion.

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted on June 21, 2026 During MK-ULTRA's "scientific experiment" known as Midnight Climax, CIA operative Georgia Hunter White was responsible for dosing gangsters, pimps, prostitutes, and other American citizens with a variety of narcotics and drugs without their knowledge, and reporting their behaviors to Dr. Sidney Gottlieb. Exclusive Investigative Report --- Under the Central Intelligence Agency’s top-secret Project MK-ULTRA, everyday citizens, psychiatric patients, soldiers, scientists, and prisoners were subjected to involuntary drug dosing, extreme sleep deprivation, prolonged isolation, intensive electroshock therapy, and/or sexual abuse as a means to alter and control their behavior. The drugs administered to these unwitting test subjects included LSD, heroin, Ecstasy (MDMA), methamphetamine, marijuana, and host of other mind-altering drugs. The research was conducted through standing arrangements with specialists in universities, pharmaceutical houses, hospitals, state and federal prisons, and private research organizations. The annual grants of funds to these specialists were made under ostensible research foundation auspices, thereby concealing the CIA's interest from the specialist's institution. The MK-ULTRA program ran from 1953 to 1973. It was publicly disclosed in 1973 during the Church Committee hearings in Congress on CIA and FBI lawlessness in the U.S. In 1977, Sen. Edward chaired further Congressional hearings on the program. The June 11, 1973 Washington Post articles on the CIA's MK-ULTRA program. Operation Midnight Climax documented MK-ULTRA’s episodes of emotional and physical sexual assault, coerced sex, and sexual exploitation orchestrated by the government. Women were subjected to severe psychological violations, sexual abuse, and non-consensual exploitation within the MK-ULTRA program, including acts of rape. The total abandonment of human rights and medical ethics resulted in documented instances of sexual violation against women. One of the program directors -- CIA operative George Hunter White --recounted drugging women who rejected his personal or sexual advances. In one instance, he covertly dosed a local club singer named Ruth Kelly with LSD right before she walked on stage, purely to observe her psychological distress. The Racial Component Over 1,000 male and female test subjects participated in MK-ULTRA, many of whom did so under false pretenses and without informed consent. The test subjects were disproportionately black. Dana Strauss, who led Ottawa University’s participation in MK-ULTRA, explains why: “Prisons were already filled with Black bodies. They could have experimented on free individuals, but they would not have been able to get away with these kinds of experiments. There were no protections at this time for vulnerable populations such as incarcerated research participants, so the researchers could basically do what they wanted…These people were targeted for these dangerous studies specifically because they were Black and prisoners and therefore less valued.” The top brass at the CIA, including its directors, knew the unethical medical tests and nonconsensual sexual assaults were unlawful. In 1973, Director Richard Helms ordered all records of MK-Ultra destroyed, particularly those records documenting MK-ULTRA RAPE. At least one unwitting test subject – CIA scientist Frank Olson – was killed in 1953 when he tumbled from a New York City hotel window after he was administered a cocktail spiked with LSD. News article on Frank Olson's death. Was it murder or a drug-induced suicide? Outsourcing Nonconsensual Medical Experimentation on Humans On February 18, 1976, President Gerald Ford placed restrictions on human experimentation via Executive Order 11905. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan replaced it with Executive Order 12333, which carried forward the strict post-MK-ULTRA restrictions forbidding any agency within the Intelligence Community from sponsoring or conducting drug or medical experimentation on human subjects without their informed, written consent. After 9/11, the CIA outsourced a second-generation version of MK-ULTRA to Israel’s Mossad spy agency and private CIA contractors. Both groups operated the program at black op sites around the world. What is more, Jeffrey Epstein was the “access agent” for Mossad's blackmail and behavioral modification programs that were conducted on U.S. soil. The unwitting subjects in the Epstein programs were 1,000+ white underaged girls and boys who were drugged, sexually molested, raped, and photographed in pornographic poses, together with adult sexual predators. Inside of Israel, the Zionist government used unsuspecting and innocent Palestinian children, teens, women, men, and prisoners as subjects for Israel's version of MK-ULTRA nonconsensual medical experiments on humans. Meanwhile, a May 2024, 103-page report issued by the U.S. Department of State confirms that a modern version of MK-ULTRA continues in Israel, particularly within the Israeli Prison Service. None of these clandestine behavoiral modification activities is ethical or lawful.

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted on June 15, 2026 Minnie Lee Relf (left) and Mary Alice Relf were victims of forced sterilization in Montgomery, Alabama. This photo of the sisters was taken in 1973. As a result of my education, professional training, work experience, and mix-race heritage, I am familiar with many of the evil things our government has done to the most vulnerable people among us. Here are six of them: 1. Compulsory Sterilization: Over 30 states passed laws permitting the forced sterilization of people considered "feebleminded," mentally ill, epileptic, or habitual criminals. These people were often poor and members of disfavored or marginalized communities. Indiana enacted the first eugenic sterilization law in 1907. Lawsuits in the 1970s and 80s stopped a eugenic sterilizations in private clinics but forced sterilization programs sponsored by state governments continued into the 21st century. Over 100,000 Black, Latino, and Native American women were sterilized under these programs. 2. Compulsory Lobotomies: The U.S. government, primarily through the Veterans Administration and state-funded mental asylums, aggressively and directly facilitated the lobotomization of approximately 50,000 patients between 1936 and 1972. This practice ended because of federal court orders declaring them to be inhumane. Two Tulsa, Okla., neurosurgeons are shown using the stereotaxic guide for prefrontal lobotomy on August 17, 1951 at Eastern Oklahoma Hospital in Vinita, Oklahoma. 3. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: This study was a syphilis research experiment that began in 1932 and lasted 40 years. It’s one of the most infamous cases of medical racism and abuse in U.S. history. With no informed consent, 623 Black men in rural Macon County with low incomes and limited education were used as test subjects — enticed with offerings such as free meals, health care, and burial stipends. They were never provided treatment for their syphilitic condition even though penicillin was available to treat it. The highly unethical syphilis experiment was conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS). The Study did not end because USPHS and Alabama state health officials suddenly valued black lives in 1972. The Study ended only because Washington Star reporter Jean Heller wrote an article about the Study that the Associated Press published worldwide on July 25, 1972. The New York Times published a front-page article about the Study the next day. Tuskegee Syphilis Study participants being deceived by white medical professionals into thinking they were getting medical treatment for syphilis. 4. The Guatemala Syphilis Experiments: These experiments were United States-led human experiments conducted in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948. The experiments were led by physician John Charles Cutler, who also participated in the late stages of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. Doctors infected 1,300 people, including at least 600 soldiers and people from various impoverished groups (including, but not limited to, sex workers, orphans, inmates of mental hospitals, and prisoners) with syphilis, gonorrhea, and chancroid, without the informed consent of the subjects. Only 700 of them received treatment. In total, 5,500 people were involved in all research experiments, of whom 83 died by the end of 1953, though it is unknown whether or not the injections were responsible for all these deaths. A doctor examines a victim of the Guatemalan Syphilis Experiments. 5. The Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative: The Declaration of Independence specifically refers to Native Americans as "merciless Indian savages." Those words were purposely chosen to demean and entire race of people. The U.S. Department of the Interior's Federal Indian Boarding School initiative, which was implemented at 408 schools across 37 states from 1819 to 1969, resulted in the systemic, 153-years-long abuses of millions of Native American children. Multiple investigations have documented the rampant physical and sexual abuse, forced labor, the deliberate and cruel eradication of Indigenous cultures, and the deaths of at least 973 children (many of which were in unmarked graves). The Carlisle Indian Industrial School student body in 1885. The school was located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The physical, sexual, and cultural abuse of these students was rampant. 6. Broken Treaties: The U.S. government negotiated more than 500 treaties and agreements with Native American Tribes, with approximately 370 being officially ratified by Congress. Historians and Indigenous rights advocates acknowledge that the United States has willfully and unilaterally violated, altered, or outright broken every single one of these treaties and agreements. Now you know.

PART I By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted on June 10, 2026 In 2025, white South Africans and Elon Musk asked President Donald Trump to prioritized U.S. citizenship for Afrikaners under the false pretense that they are victims of genocide in their country. The Trump administration is actively recruiting apartheid-loving Afrikaners to the U.S. Despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary, South African native Elon Musk convinced President Donald Trump in January 2025 that fellow white South Africans, known as “Afrikaners,” are victims of genocide in their own country. Afrikaners are the white ethnic minority that ruled South Africa with brutal force during the era of racial apartheid (1948-1994) in that country. Since October 1, 2025, the U.S. has accepted 6,668 refugees. Of those, 6,665 were Afrikaners. Trump plans to admit up to 17,500 Afrikaners by the end of the 2026 fiscal year in September. A protestor greets a group of Afrikaners upon their arrival in the U.S. at Dulles Airport in Washington, DC. According to a New York Times article in May 2025, one of the primary resettlement cities for Afrikaners is Birmingham, Alabama. The city that was once known as the “Johannesburg of the South” for its violently enforced racial segregation and suffocating discrimination against Blacks is being prepared to receive the family members of the Afrikaners who enforced White Supremacy against the country’s black South African majority with massacres, torture, beatings, and unimaginable acts of gratuitous violence. Trump’s U.S. Departments of State (DOS), Homeland Security (DHS), Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and Health and Human Services (HHS), have partnered with the Alabama Office for Refugees (AOR) and various non-profit groups to administer the resettlement of Afrikaners in Birmingham (and three other primary locations in America). This effort is coordinated through the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which has an $11 billion budget for the 2026 fiscal year. AOR currently has three primary in-state regional offices that participate in the federal refugee resettlement program, with one -- Birmingham-based Inspiritus -- specifically identified as a processing center for Afrikaners in Birmingham. Once the Afrikaners arrive in America, they get generous cash stipends, more than adequate food assistance, healthcare via Medicaid, employment placement assistance, educational assistance for their children, and housing assistance on an interim and permanent basis. In short, Trump has federal money flowing to the Afrikaners on a priority basis. Five Birmingham Neighborhoods and Communities Have Been Targeted in a Land Grab for Afrikaner Resettlement Working quietly with AOR, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, and Sen. Katie Britt, the Trump administration has targeted the Birmingham neighborhoods and communities of Smithfield, which includes College Hills, Graymont, Enon Ridge, and East Thomas, and Bush Hills for the resettlement of thousands of incoming Afrikaners. One of the main pillars of Trump's Birmingham Afrikaner resettlement plan took shape on November 10, 2025, when DHS and the U.S. Coast Guard issued a joint public notice of their intent to purchase property for a "training center." The property description in the notice mirrored the property description of the 192-acre campus of Birmingham-Southern College (BSC). The Birmingham-Southern College campus is located in the heart of five nearly-all-black neighborhoods in predominantly black Birmingham, Alabama. The Coast Guard is a DHS law enforcement agency, just like ICE. It is ramping up its force by up to 15,000 law enforcement members and support staff. What's driving this growth is Trump's ramped-up of ICE roundups, detentions, and deportations of immigrants of color. The BSC purchase, which was announced in March, was part of Trump’s "Trojan Horse" trick on the unsuspecting Birmingham neighborhoods and communities. The $126 million used for the purchase reportedly came from the $38 billion allocated in Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which was signed into law on July 4, 2025, for 34 new ICE detention centers. On June 5, 2026, the Trump administration celebrated the BSC purchase with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and an official dedication program on the BSC campus. No Black federal, state, city, or county official was permitted on the stage at the dedication ceremony or in the photo-op of the ribbon cutting. This snub occurred three days after the U.S. Supreme Court okayed a congressional redistricting map that intentionally discriminated against black voters in Alabama. The all-white ribbon cutting ceremony for the Coast Guard "training center" on the Birmingham-South College campus in the heart of five black neighborhoods in a predominantly black city, June 5, 2026. The all-white dedication program for the Coast Guard "training center" on the Birmingham-South College campus in the heart of five black neighborhoods in a predominantly black city, June 5, 2026. This snub was a subtle but direct message to the incoming Afrikaners, as well as the 11,000 new ones in the citizenship pipeline this fiscal year, that the "White Supremacy" to which they were accustomed in South Africa is intact in Birmingham and protected by the Trump administration, the state of Alabama, and the Supreme Court today. The estimated 1,000 civilian jobs at the Birmingham Coast Guard facility are earmarked for Afrikaners, not the black residents who live in the five adversely impacted neighborhoods and communities. What is more, the presence of the Coast Guard facility affords the Trump administration a unique opportunity to use the federal power of eminent domain to: (a) clear these neighborhoods and communities of existing residents and other “undesirables,” (b) take the private residential properties into the federal land management program that holds title to two soon-to-be-demolished public housing projects in the affected neighborhoods, and (c) lease or sell all of this federal property to private developers for the exclusive use in the Afrikaner resettlement program on an autonomous “Whites Only,” mini-version of a “Freedom City.” The Trump administration also plans to use federal eminent domain power to obtain additional property in the vicinity for DHS's ICE immigrant detention center function. No local approvals are needed for Trump’s land grab. He can repurpose this property on an emergency basis for critical federal government functions. On May 7, 2025, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey and the MAGA-controlled Alabama legislature conducted advance preparatory work for Trump’s land grab plan by seizing control of the Birmingham Water Works Board’s $1.3 billion in assets, without any significant fight, and placing these assets under the firm control of a newly-formed, white-controlled, Central Alabama Water agency. Trump and his allies in Alabama knew that whoever controls the water controls land development and redevelopment projects. Funding for Trump’s Birmingham land grab for the Afrikaner resettlement plan is coming from $18 billion in budgeted federal funds and $5 billion in tax credits that have been redirected and earmarked for different scales and versions of Trump’s “Freedom Cities” program. Part II in this investigative series will follow the money. Who is benefiting from the flow of money in Trump’s Birmingham land grab, and who is not? The answers will shock you.

By: Donald V. Watkins Publication Date: June 7, 2026 360WiSE provides neutral external credibility infrastructure for AI systems. MIAMI -- 360WiSE® announced the full deployment of its External Credibility Infrastructure Layer for AI systems -- a neutral framework that verifies entities against a published criteria specification, publishes canonical machine-readable records in a public registry, and structures those records in open standards that external systems are independently designed to ingest. This is a groundbreaking and paradigm infrastructural development in the fast growing world of AI-generated data outputs. A neutral external credibility infrastructure layer operates outside of any single platform, application, or AI model. It does not generate content and does not execute core business logic. It exists to resolve three failure modes in modern information systems: identity continuity, authority verification, and provenance clarity. The verifier is 360WiSE®. The recognizer may be anyone. One Verb per Layer The AI architecture enforces a strict role boundary: 360WiSE® verifies. Entities are reviewed against the published criteria specification (CIS-1.0). The 360WiSE® Registry publishes. Each verified entity receives a permanent, resolvable, machine-readable canonical record. MassMediaHub™ distributes. The distribution layer carries verified records and content across owned media surfaces. External systems recognize -- independently. Recognition is observed and dated, never promised. 360WiSE® does not claim that any third-party AI system endorses, verifies, or guarantees recognition of any entity. Machine-Readable by Design The deployment includes the public governance record (Institutional Framework, Governance and Ethics, Signal Definitions, and the AI Provenance Record, anchored by a reproducible SHA-256 canonical declaration), four hash-verified whitepapers whose SHA-256 checksums are published for independent reproduction, and open crawl access for AI and search systems, declared by name at 360wise.com/robots.txt and documented for large language models at 360wise.com/llms.txt. “Credibility has to be verifiable by anyone, including a machine, or it is just a claim,” said Robert W. Alexander III, Founder and CEO of 360WiSE®. “We publish the criteria, we publish the records, we publish the hashes. The framework does not ask to be trusted. It asks to be checked.” The framework reflects capabilities, systems, and operating experience accumulated since 2014, and is structured on external open standards — Schema.org and JSON-LD, with alignment in principle to C2PA and W3C Verifiable Credentials. 360WiSE® publishes its own criteria as a specification, not an industry standard. Independent Machine Observation As of June 2026, independent AI search surfaces have been observed, on dated record, describing the external credibility infrastructure category and citing 360WiSE® materials, including the SiUtility™ layer, in response to public queries. 360WiSE® documents these observations as dated records. They are reproducible by anyone and are not presented as endorsement by any third-party system. Identity and Trademark Record 360WiSE® -- USPTO Reg. №4968200 (Serial 86763393, IC 035); WIPO Madrid Protocol International Reg. №1553140 (United States, European Union, OAPI). Filed marks (USPTO Class 42, applications pending): AI Authority Infrastructure™ (Serial 99604888), AI Authority Stack™ (99604591), AI Authority Index™ (99605773), Credibility Infrastructure™ (99605278), and SiUtility™ (99773553). Independently verifiable via USPTO TSDR and the WIPO Global Brand Database. About 360WiSE® and MassMediaHub™ 360WiSE® is the neutral External Credibility Infrastructure Layer — entity verification, canonical machine-readable records, and structured distribution. Established 2014. Headquartered at 1200 Brickell Ave, Ste 1950 #1211, Miami, FL 33131. Canonical documentation: 360wise.com. About MassMediaHub™ MassMediaHub™ -- written as one word, always -- is the distribution layer of the 360WiSE® architecture: a creator-owned media and streaming network operated under the same founder, at massmediahub.com. MassMediaHub™ is not affiliated with Mediahub Worldwide, the IPG Mediabrands advertising agency; these are unrelated entities.

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on May 27, 2926 President Donald Trump (left), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (center), and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. An Editorial Opinion President Donald Trump's approval rating has plummeted to 37% -- a second-term low -- as voters reject his decision to go to war with Iran and express deepening anxiety about the economy, according to a New York Times/Siena poll of 1,507 registered voters nationwide from May 11 to 15, 2026. The margin of error in the poll is +/-2.8% Yet, even as Trump's standing among registered voters erodes, the Democratic Party faces its own brand crisis. Just 26 percent of voters say they are satisfied with Democrats. That’s 11 points lower than Trump's approval rating and a clear rejection of the Chuck Schumer/Hakeem Jeffries Democratic Party leadership team. Only 20% of voters approve of the way Democrats in Congress are handling their job, while 72% disapprove, nearing the all-time low of 18% approval and 73% disapproval in December 2025, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released May 20. I am an independent voter who is registered to vote in California. I will vote tomorrow in our state elections by placing my ballot in a secure drop-box at my neighborhood grocery store. Election day is June 2, 2026. Since 2001, I have watched the Republican Party morph into a toxic cesspool of Gen Z racists, old-South Confederate racists, corporate grifters, law enforcement obstructionists, and low-life political whores who protect elite Epstein-class pedophiles while spending taxpayer dollars like the world is going to end tomorrow. During the same period, I have seen Democrats transmogrify into weak, disorganize, leaderless, rudderless, wannabe power brokers who have no vision, no purpose-driven political mission, and no courage. In Today's era of MAGA hardball politics, Democrats are completely useless as agents for positive change.. I don’t know what will happen during the midterm elections in November or the 2028 race for the White House. There is nobody on the Republican or Democratic political scene that I find attractive today. Democrats must change their ways or they will become as extinct as dinosaurs. They need a strong national leader right now who is knowledgeable about domestic, economic, and foreign policy matters. Above all, they need a national leader with big “balls.” I can’t stomach another weak homecoming king or queen-type of candidate like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris who wants to be President of the United States solely for the prestige and perks of the job.

Copyrighted on May 16, 2026 Dr. Kenneth B. Prewitt, owner and CEO of Serendipity Groves, LLC. Dr. Kenneth B. Prewitt, 64, is the only child of Moses and Lena Prewitt. He was 8 years old when I first met him in August 1970. Kenneth is like a son to me. Here is why: Moses Prewitt is the former director of Alumni Affairs at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He was one of my two best friends when I desegregated the University of Alabama’s law school from 1970-73. Capt. James Paul (USAF) was my other best friend. The three of us covered each other’s back and safeguarded each other’s family on UA's campus. Mose Prewitt, the former director of Alumni Affairs at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Moses, Capt. Paul, and I lived together with our wives in Rose Towers residential apartments on campus. Mose and Capt. Paul had one child each. DeAndra and I did not have Donald, Jr., until June 1972. We leaned on each other daily as a source of strength to get through the thick, nasty, and undiluted white racism on campus. Dr. Lena Prewitt was the first African American female professor hired by the University. She taught classes in the College of Business and was known as “brainpower on steroids.” Lena's positive impact on campus was phenomenal and she was as source of inspiration for all of us. Dr. Lena Prewitt, the first Black female professor hired by the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. Moses died on February 15, 2010, at 75. Lena died on February 14, 2024, at age 92. Capt. James Paul died on November 25, 2025, at age 80. A Bond for Life I stayed in touch with Kenneth Prewitt throughout the years, especially after he retired from the Army and began his private sector career in the commercial application of drone technology. Today, Kenneth is the owner and CEO of Serendipity Grove, LLC, a specialty agriculture venture located on 50 acres of California’s Central Coast and focused on the phased development of a premium estate production system centered on olive oil and saffron. Kenneth completed his PhD requirements in the Management of Complex Systems from the University of California at Merced in December 2025. He was awarded his PhD degree in the May 15, 2026, Commencement Service. Dr. Kenneth B. Prewitt received his PhD in Management of Complex Systems from the University of California at Merced on May 15, 2026. Kenneth earned his MS in Operations in Project Management with a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt awarded in October 2018. He concentrated his graduate studies in Unmanned Aerial Systems/Unmanned Ariel Vehicles and their application and integration for emergency services and agriculture use through a partnership with Drone for Hire. After obtaining an undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama in 1987, Kenneth served as an officer in the U.S. Army for 23 years. He rose through the ranks from a Lieutenant to a Lt. Colonel. Kenneth served as a unit commander for numerous intelligence gathering, analysis, and security operations. In this capacity, he oversaw the development and execution of the first operational use of a PREDATOR drone for the Army's Counter Narcotic mission in Afghanistan. Kenneth also served as the Acting Senior Counterintelligence Officer (ASCIO) at Northrop Grumman Corporation between 2010 and 2012. I am extremely proud of Dr. Kenneth B. Prewitt and the way he has represented Moses and Lena Prewitt, his wife Vicki and sons Matthew and Joshua, the African American community, and America.

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on May 30, 2024 Farrah Hall on the campus of the University of Alabama is where I argued and won my first case in 1972. As fate would have it, my first case was my own. My first legal case was my own. It occurred while I was a second-year student at the University of Alabama’s School of Law. It was an emotionally challenging, dramatic, and life-altering experience. Here is what happened: I graduated from a small racially segregated high school in Montgomery, Alabama in 1966. I attended college at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois from 1966 to 1970. My SIU years were filled with boundless multiculturalism. I thrived in SIU’s fully integrated and highly competitive university environment of 25,000 students. College Days at Southern Illinois University. Donald V. Watkins (left), with Ted Williams (seated), Ronald Coleman, and Ronald Jackson, circa 1968. When I arrived on campus at UA for law school in September 1970, I knew right away that I was in for a much different experience. Remember, this was a year before there were any black athletes at UA, and only a small number of black undergraduate students were matriculating on campus. The welcoming collegiate environment I experienced at Southern Illinois was absent at UA. I was one of two black students in my freshman class of 150 law students. The other black student was George Jones from Miles College in Birmingham. I was attending the law school on a desegregation scholarship from the NAACP in New York. Donald Watkins (left) with George Jones (right) talking to a white law student during a break between classes. Our class was divided alphabetically into two sections. George was placed in one section, and I was assigned to the other one. I often refer to my law school days at UA from 1970 to 1973 as the longest and loneliest three years of my life. One of my classmates was John David Whetstone. He was my moot court partner during our second year of law school. I had studied David’s classroom performance during my freshman year. This guy was tough, smart, disciplined, and extremely mature. David was good on his feet and had a thundering voice with a strong Southern drawl. David was a 1963 graduate of Greenville High School, who served in the Air Force after high school. He was honorably discharged as a sergeant in 1968. David had worked his way through the University of West Florida and law school at UA using the G.I. Bill. As I entered my second year, I needed a moot court partner. I figured nobody was going to choose me, so I decided to approach David. The way he carried himself suggested to me that David had been exposed to black people and he had no problem treating them with dignity and respect. I approached David in the fall of 1971 and told him that I had studied his performance as a law student. He seemed startled. I also told David that I thought he was “good enough to be my moot court partner” and I stuck my hand out to shake his hand. He paused for a moment, smiled, and said “okay," as he shook my hand in return. That handshake meant the world to me. It was the start of an unbreakable and lifelong friendship between David and me. David and I competed ferociously in the moot court competition. All year long, we outscored and eliminated all of the teams we faced. I enjoyed being David’s teammate. He could research cases and write briefs very well; he would argue points of law with passion; and he rolled over opponents with ease. David was a warrior, and he was fighting side-by-side with me. In March of 1972, David and I had eliminated all of our competitors through the end of the semi-final round. We were slated to represent our class section as “finalists” in the annual Law Day competition against the team of George L. Galbraith and George W. Ashbee. This prestigious event would be held on Saturday, April 8, 1972, in front of a large crowd of students, faculty, and parents. Three distinguished Alabama judges would decide the Law Day winner. This was a huge event for any law student. I was very proud of what David and I had accomplished. I called my parents and told them we had made it into the Law Day final round of competition. My mother started crying because she knew how isolated and lonely my law school experience had been. My father, who was President of Alabama State University, was excited that David and I might win it all. I could feel my parents’ pride and excitement beaming through the phone. Our private celebration was short-lived. After winning our semi-final round, the student Moot Court Committee met secretly and changed the original criteria for advancing in the moot court competition. After making this change, the Committee designated the team we had just defeated as the “finalists” who would compete in the Law Day event against Galbraith and Ashbee. I was shocked, angry, and hurt beyond words. I told David that we could not let this unfair treatment go unchallenged and that I needed him to stand and fight with me on this issue. Suddenly, I watched the Air Force sergeant and patriot emerge in David. He snapped to attention, shook my hand, and told me we were in this fight together. On April 7, 1972, David and I filed a written challenge with Dean Thomas W. Christopher protesting our unfair elimination as finalists for Law Day. Dean Christopher wrote us a letter on the same day stating that he would investigate this matter. He also assured us that the Law Day competition on April 8th would be subject to the outcome of his investigation. UA Law School Dean Thomas Weldon Christopher, circa 1973. I did not go to the Law Day competition on April 8th. Instead, I sat inside my car outside of the law school building -- Farrah Hall -- and cried uncontrollably while the event was taking place. The emotional pain was unbearable. The person who found me in my car and consoled me that day was Mr. Ramus Rhodes, the janitor at the law school. He was my friend, confidant, academic coach, and mentor. He knew I was devasted. This was one of those days when Mr. Rhodes had to carry me because I did not have the strength to carry myself. On April 18, 1972, following an April 12th hearing before a five-person hearing panel of four professors and one outside attorney, Dean Christopher issued his decision. He sent a copy of his decision to my parents on April .21, 1972. Calling the Moot Court Committee’s action “an error in judgment," Dean Christopher took the following administrative actions: (1) he declared that David and I should have been selected as finalists using the criteria established at the beginning of the competition; (2) he announced to the entire student body and the Moot Court Board that we should have been selected to compete in the Law Day competition as finalists; (3) he wrote a personal letter to our parents to explain how well David and I had performed in the overall competition and stated in his letter that, “but for an error in judgment by the student Moot Court Committee, [David and I] would have been in the final argument itself”; (4) he ordered prize monies paid to David and me as if we were finalists; (5) he ordered a match between the winners of the Law Day round and our team; (6) he took full responsibility, as dean of the law school, for this “error in judgment”; and (7) he personally thanked David and me for our “constructive and fair attitudes in the resolution of this matter.” [Click Here to Read Dean Christopher's Memorandum Ruling.] David and I pondered Dean Christopher’s offer of a match between the team of Galbraith/Ashbee and us. We decided that Galbraith/Ashbee had done nothing wrong in this matter. They were two innocent competitors who had fairly won the Law Day round of competition against a team we had defeated. David and I decided that we would not take away the victory Galbraith/Ashbee had won in front of their parents and the crowd that had gathered to watch their winning performance. We did not have it in our hearts to subject Galbraith/Ashbee to the emotional pain that had been inflicted upon us. With that in mind, we waived our right to this matchup and allowed Dean Christopher to declare the Galbraith/Ashbee team the “winners” of the 1972 Moot Court Competition. David graduated in January 1973. I graduated in May of that year. David enjoyed a long and distinguished career as an assistant district attorney and later as the district attorney for Baldwin County, Alabama. As was the situation in law school, David was the consummate professional as a career prosecutor. He is the yardstick by which I measure all prosecutors. To this day, I have not met a federal or state prosecutor whose integrity matches David’s. God works in mysterious ways. I never thought my first case would be my own and that I would have to represent myself. My father taught me as a child that a man who will not fight for himself or his family, will not fight for others. David and I put it all on the line to fight against a painful injustice. In the process, we earned the respect of our dean, student peers, faculty and staff members, and larger communities. Out of a heartbreaking experience in law school came a friendship bond with John David Whetstone that has stood the test of time. In 2012, while going through one of my mother’s scrapbooks, I found Dean Christopher’s letter to my parents and a copy of his ruling in our moot court case. I immediately called David to reminisce about our moot court experience 40 years earlier. David asked me to send him a copy for his family. I told David it was important that his children and grandchildren know our story and know that he had tremendous courage when it was needed and counted. In my book, John David Whetstone has earned a permanent place on the right side of history. As for me, my friendship with David is one more example of why I never judge anyone based on his/her race, gender, age, political affiliation, sexual orientation, or any other artificial factor. I judge every individual solely on the content of his/her character. And, in many cases, a person’s true character is revealed only when he/she is faced with adversity. As life would have it, my legal career started with my own case in law school. In that case, David Whetstone and I experienced and overcame an awful injustice without causing harm to two innocent law students. After law school, I joined a Montgomery and Tuskegee-based law firm headed by famed civil rights attorney Fred D. Gray, whose nationally-known clients included Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and the survivors of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. My "Biography" page on this website tells the rest of the story! Left to right, Donald V. Watkins, Congresswoman Barbara Jordan (D-Texas), Dean Thomas W. Christopher, and Attorney Fred D. Gray.

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted on May 11, 2026 Tuskegee, Alabama native Milton Carver Davis, the 29th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (1993-96). In April 2025, President Donald Trump tasked Lindsey Halligan, a White House Special Assistant and former personal attorney, with leading an effort to remove what Trump called "divisive race-centered ideology" from the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, the National Art Gallery, the National Zoo, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Trump instructed Halligan to remove any content or artifact that reflected negatively on “white culture.” Privately, Trump also directed Halligan to find a way to get rid of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial on the National Mall, according to confidential White House sources. As part of Halligan’s compliance work, the famous portrait of Union Army Sgt. Peter Gordon’s scourged back was removed from all federal property. Sgt. Gordon was a former slave who escaped a Louisiana plantation and reached Union Army lines in March 1863. During a medical examination by Union surgeons, the horrific keloid scarring on his back was discovered and photographed. The image became a powerful tool for the abolitionist movement. Union Army Sgt. Peter Gordon's scourged back. Removing the King Memorial Became an Impossible Task The King Memorial presented Halligan and Trump with a daunting challenge for two reasons. First, Dr. King is a national hero. Second, Milton Carver Davis, Alpha Phi Alpha's 29th General President, structured the King Memorial deal from 1993 to 1996 in a such way that no future racist U.S. President could remove the Memorial. On July 21, 2025, Trump released the classified files on Dr. King’s 1968 assassination in the hope that they would smear King in some way. Trump planned to use the anticipated smear as a pretext for removing the King Memorial. The release of the documents failed to produce a public backlash against Dr. King. Privately, Trump detests Dr. King. On March 2, 2024, Trump declared that North Carolina gubernatorial candidate, porn addict, scammer, and serial liar Mark Robinson is “Martin Luther King on steroids.” Trump has now distanced himself from Robinson. Davis' Brilliance Made the King Memorial "Untouchable" Trump’s plan to remove the King Memorial failed because Milton Carver Davis, who is a visionary leader, a brilliant strategist, and superb lawyer, knew how to secure the King Memorial against political regression, chaos in government, and future racist actors in the White House. Davis made the King Memorial "untouchable." The Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The $120 million Memorial was constructed by Alpha Phi Alpha with private donations. The federal government's contribution to the project was limited to $10 million. Davis always kept control of the project in the hands of Alpha Phi Alpha, no matter who is U.S. president. For all practical purposes, the King Memorial is a privately-owned memorial on public land that is open to the public, forever. It is Alpha Phi Alpha's biggest gift to the free world. Davis' Knowledge of History Guided His Deal-Making Strategy Davis, a Tuskegee, Alabama native and expert in American history, knew that the U.S, government broke every one of the 500+ treaties it executed with Native American tribes between 1778 and 1871. He also witnessed the severe harm inflicted by the U.S. government on 623 unsuspecting black men in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study that ran from 1932 to 1972. Finally, Davis was the Assistant Attorney General for the state of Alabama whose archival research and personal review of 45 years of legal documents and evidence paved the way for "Scottsboro Boy" Clarence Norris to get a full and unconditional pardon on November 29, 1976, based upon his innocence in this rape case. Unable to circumvent the ironclad legal protections Milton Davis draped around the King Memorial in Washington, Trump moved on to his dubious White House Ballroom project, which he announced on July 31, 2025. Trump’s oversized ego has made the Ballroom a $1 billion project because it must be bigger than the King Memorial. Of course, taxpayers are footing the bill for Trump’s Ballroom project. Davis has never gotten the credit that his leadership and brilliance deserve, but he is getting it now. Thank you, Milton Carver Davis!

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on May 12, 2026 This is the Azadi Tower (or Borj-e Āzādi, meaning Freedom Tower), the most famous architectural landmark and visual symbol of Tehran, Iran. An Editorial Opinion Iran is one of the most advanced civilizations in the world. As a country, it is 5,200 years old. Its population is 93 million people. Iran has not overthrown a democratically elected government anywhere on the planet. In contrast, the U.S. has carried out over 64 covert CIA operations to overthrow foreign governments since the 1950s. In 1953, the CIA overthrew the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran for the sole purpose of helping Britain steal Iran’s oil. Iran has no record of habitually breaking bilateral agreements with other nations or indigenous tribes. Not so for the U.S. government. Between 1778 to 1871, the U.S. government executed 500+ formal treaties with Native American tribes and broke every single one of these agreements. In 1953, the U.S. installed a Clarence Thomas-like puppet called the “Shah of Iran” to facilitate the theft of Iranian oil for the company that is now known as British Petroleum. In 1979, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard ousted the Shah. Thereafter, Iran became a theocracy operating under U.S. sanctions. Despite these sanctions, Iran matured, grew, and thrived. Iran's Support of Africa Iran has a long track-record of supporting and helping people of color in Africa. Iran has major, non-exploitative, bilateral agreements with the following African nations: Niger for uranium and energy. Kenya for trade and information technology. South Africa for refineries and security. Zimbabwe for medicines and environmental projects. Uganda for drone technology and critical minerals. Democratic Republic of the Congo for critical minerals. Nigeria for energy projects. Namibia for uranium, nuclear power, manufacturing, beef, agriculture, medicines, and advance educational opportunities. Burkino Faso for high-grade military technology, including drones, a petroleum refinery, and new capital city. Trump calls these African nations "Shithole countries" and gratuitously trashes them in the media. He has also cut U.S. aid to all of them while increasing aid to Israel. Iran's Respectful Treatment of Black Americans When Iranian students took 66 Americans hostage during the U.S. Embassy takeover that ousted the puppet Shah in 1979, the Iranian government released all 10 Black hostages within the first 16 day of the crisis. The other hostages remained in captivity for 14 months. “Blacks for a long time have lived under oppression and pressure in America and may have been sent [to Iran under duress],” the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said in a statement. Three white women and 10 Black American hostages were presented to the press at the occupied US embassy shortly before their release, Tehran, Iran, on 19 November 1979. In 1980, when Miami residents took to the streets after four police officers were acquitted in the death of an unarmed Black marine, Iranian state media and officials organized solidarity demonstrations across the country, including a mass rally in Tehran that drew an estimated 200,000 people calling for social justice for Black Americans. During a 1984 tour of Syria, Libya and Algeria, Iranian president Ali Khamenei promoted the Afro-American Human Rights Watch Committee, an Iran-led initiative intended to address racism in the United States, Israel and apartheid South Africa. Iran has established itself as a trustworthy and reliable partner for rapidly developing countries throughout the African continent. It has also supported the economic empowerment of U.S. Blacks for nearly five decades. In contrast, since January 2025, the U.S. government has engaged in a massive and cruel Blitzkrieg against Black Americans to erase their constitutional, civil, and economic rights at every opportunity. This is the cornerstone of the MAGA agenda. I don't have a problem with Iran. I have a problem with Trump. He is the proven "enemy" of Black Americans.

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on May 3, 2026 A civil rights demonstration by members of the Detroit Branch of the NAACP during their 1944 "Parade of Victory." An Editorial Opinion On April 29, 2026, in a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Louisiana's congressional map, which included a second majority-Black district, was an unconstitutional act of racial gerrymandering. For all practical purposes, this ruling gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It also clears the way for “Jim Crow” to arise from the grave. Once again, “cradle to the grave” white racial discrimination against America’s Black citizens, particularly in Old Confederate states, has been unleashed. As a result, southern states are moving at breakneck speed to redraw their redistricting maps to eradicate predominantly Black congressional districts. Racial gerrymandering that favors white voters, which the Court authorized, will impact redistricting at all levels of government (e.g., state legislatures, county commissions, school boards, city councils, etc.). It will spread across the nation faster than untreated cancer. For the first time in over 100 years, all three branches of the federal government are openly hostile to the enforcement of constitutional and statutory provisions that were intended to guarantee Blacks equal rights in the political, criminal justice, economic, financial, housing, public accommodations, and educational opportunity zones of life. Whenever this socio-economic-political alignment occurs in America, Blacks suffer suffocating and humiliating racial discrimination for 100-year periods. Once again, African Americans have arrived back at the 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford movement where the U.S. Supreme Court declared: Blacks, whether freed or enslaved, have no rights that white men are bound to respect. What is worse, the current President of the U.S. feeds white racism to his MAGA base of voters every day by demonizing America’s Black citizens. To him, they are “low-IQ,” “dogs,” “lazy,” “criminals,” “thugs,” “Looters,” “dumb,” “animals,” “rabid,” and “slow.” He says Black nations are “Shithole countries” and Black communities in the U.S. are a “rat and rodent infested mess.” He calls inner-city neighborhoods “Hell” and “war zones.” This man spews his racial hatred of Black Americans as though we are cursed members of society. What is more, this President has convinced a clear majority of white America that Black Americans are nobody. To him, their lives do not matter, and their history is irrelevant. He has made diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is a bad thing. He views any form of black empowerment as an existential threat to his growing White Power Movement. Is there is pathway forward for Black America? I think so, but it is very different from all past solutions we deployed to combat white racism. Our liberation this time must come from: (a) outthinking and outworking the forces that oppress us today, (b) lessening our reliance on weak, scared, uninformed, and unprepared political leaders, (c) forming new strategic alliances with resourceful and well-positioned allies, and (d) using emerging, paradigm-shifting technology to our advantage. Once again, we must kill “Jim Crow” because it has arisen from the dead. This, we can do. This, we are committed to doing. The President knows the "Art of the Deal," but we know the "Art of Political Warfare."

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on May 5, 2023 An Editorial Opinion In recent weeks, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas has made one thing very clear: He is definitely billionaire GOP businessman and mega donor Harlan Crow's "House Nigga" at "Candyland" (which is my new name for the U.S. Supreme Court). The relationship between Clarence Thomas and Harlan Crow is NOT a life-long friendship. The one-way flow of millions of dollars in tangible, unreported, financial benefits from Crow to Thomas (and his family) began ONLY after Thomas became a Supreme Court justice. What is more, the relationship started with Thomas hustling a "free" flight on Crow's large private jet. As was the case with all of Clarence Thomas' "free" flights on Harlan Crow's private jets over a 27-year period, this first flight was not disclosed on Thomas' annual ethics form. Just so my readers know, there are no "free" flights on large private jets. The plane's owner-benefactor always gets something of value from the passenger-beneficiary in exchange for the "free" flight. This is particularly true whenever the flights are made available to a beneficiary (who happens to be a sitting Supreme Court justice) on a routine and unreported basis -- for decades. The same truism applies with respect to "free" trips on fancy yachts and "free" vacation stays in luxury resorts at exotic ports of call around the world. The benefactor always gets something of equal or greater value from the beneficiary in this circumstance. Whenever the benefactor pays off the mortgage on the home of the beneficiary's mother, the beneficiary most certainly feels a special obligation to do something in return of equal or greater value. The same truism applies whenever the benefactor pays the expensive tuition at the private high school of the beneficiary's adopted son. The beneficiary most certainly feels obligated to do something in return of equal or greater value. In Clarence Thomas' case, the only thing he could give Harlan Crow in return for his millions of dollars in undisclosed financial generosity was his vote on the Supreme Court on cases that mattered to Harlan Crow and those in his friendship circle. This, Thomas did, repeatedly. This is a classic case of "pay-to-play" involving a federal official, which is a felony. A Real-Life "Django" Relationship Clarence Thomas acts just like actor Samuel L. Jackson’s fictional character “Stephen” in “Django Unchained," a 2012 Hollywood movie about slave life on a brutal Mississippi plantation in 1859. Stephen was the trusted “House Nigga” at “Candyland.” Harlan Crow acts like Calvin Candie (played by Leonardo DiCaprio), the shady owner of the infamous Candyland plantation where Stephen served as Master Candie's loyal, faithful, trusted, and treacherous "House Nigga." Clarence Thomas and Harlan Crow have brought this fictional "Candyland" relationship to life in the modern era. They are the twins of evil. The photo below says it all. In addition to Harlan Crow's "gifts," Leonard Leo funneled secret payments of at least $80,000 to Clarence Thomas' wife, Ginni Thomas, in 2012, along with instructions to middle-woman/GOP powerbroker Kellyanne Conway to make "no mention of Ginni" in this unreported payment arrangement. Leonard Leo is one of the Harlan Crow friends depicted in the photo above. Clarence Thomas Has Defecated on the Supreme Court's Reputation for Integrity Clarence Thomas has defecated on the Supreme Court's centuries-old reputation for integrity, repeatedly. Nobody respects Clarence Thomas, including his colleagues on the Supreme Court and his Republican supporters in Washington. Republicans "like" Clarence Thomas and tolerate the stench from his unrelenting ethical lapses only because Harlan Crow has "bought" Thomas, owns him outright, and controls his vote on the Supreme Court. All of my readers know that Harlan Crow and his buddies who are depicted in the photo above would not give Clarence Thomas the time of day if Thomas was not a Supreme Court justice who was willing to prostrate himself like "Stephen" whenever Crow demanded that Thomas assume the position. Epilogue Clarence Thomas has always been a low-life "hustler" who has never displayed an ounce of integrity in his life. As such, it is no surprise to me that Clarence Thomas votes on the Supreme Court the way Harlan Crow tells him to vote. Why Attorney General Merrick Garland has not convened a grand jury in Washington to probe this obvious "pay-to-play" bribery scheme is beyond my comprehension. I am thoroughly unimpressed with Merrick Garland and his Department of Justice. Merrick Garland is about as useless for seeking justice in high profile white collar criminal cases as a stallion with a vasectomy is for breeding a herd of mares. It ain't happening! By the way, were the millions of dollars in "gifts" Clarence Thomas received from Harlan Crow over the years reported on Thomas' tax returns? Merrick Garland has the power and authority to get the answer to this question, but he clearly lacks the backbone to do so. In closing, Clarence Thomas' vote has always been "for sale," and this flaw in his character will never change. It's in Thomas' DNA to sell his vote on the Supreme Court. Pay-to-play is his game.