John Watson (died November 16, 2001) became editor of The South End, the daily student newspaper of Wayne State University, in 1968, transforming the paper into a public resource "with the intention of promoting the interests of impoverished, oppressed, exploited, and powerless victims of white, racist monopoly capitalism and imperialism" (first editorial by Watson in Sept. 26, 1968).
[1] In 1968 and 1969, Watson was editor of The South End, a daily student newspaper of Wayne State University.
The group protested working conditions and racism within automotive companies and the United Auto Workers.
[1] As member of both the Black Panthers and the Detroit-based Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM), John Watson represented the American black liberation movement at the international anti-imperialist conference organized in December 1968 in Italy.
[citation needed] He helped produce Finally Got the News, a documentary on black workers in Detroit.