SPOKANE, Wash. - Every year on the 3rd Monday of January, we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. For young kids, that usually translates to one thing: no school. This year, at Jefferson ...

Every year in February for Black History Month the Rev. Bernadette Watkins pulls out her collection of African American memorabilia to create an exhibit for a school, community center or place of ...

DETROIT – When Rev. Watkins felt the pull of the ministry and the pull of homosexuality, he thought it would all go away – that these feelings were little more than fleeting; that he would have a ...

No absence may have been greater felt among the thousands who marched through Spokane on Monday than that of the late Rev. Percy ‘Happy’ Watkins. Watkins, one of Spokane’s most prominent civil rights ...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- A celebration of life was held Friday at Life Center Church in West Spokane for Reverend Percy "Happy" Watkins. Rev. Watkins was the pastor at New Hope Baptist Church for 30 years.

The Rev. David Watkins, 77, of Mechanicsburg, passed away peacefully on May 26, 2024. Born on May 4, 1947, David was the son of the late David Watkins and Sylvia Holliday Watkins. He graduated from ...

Everyone wants to hear the Rev. Percy “Happy” Watkins speak. His captivating recitation of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, which he’s delivered hundreds of times across three decades ...

Rev. Wardell Watkins was born October 7, 1940 in Birmingham, AL to Comer Watkins, Sr. and Mattie Moore-Watkins. The youngest of four children, Wardell was affectionately known as Peanut. Wardell ...