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The Daytona Times
Weekly newspaper in Florida From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Daytona Times is a Florida weekly black newspaper serving Volusia and Flagler counties.
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History
In 1969, Charles W. Cherry Sr., a Bethune–Cookman University professor, entrepreneur, civil rights activist, and later president of the Florida NAACP, founded the Daytona Beach’s Westside Rapper, a weekly newspaper serving the African American community in Daytona Beach.[2][3]
In August 1978, the Westside Rapper was succeeded by The Daytona Times, as the "The Black Voice of East Central Florida".[2]
Following Cherry's death in 2004, his two sons, Charles Cherry II and Glenn Cherry, took over the publication of The Daytona Times.[4]
Former NAACP president and 2018 Maryland gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous has been a contributing editor for The Daytona Times.[5]
The paper is a member of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), a trade group of more than 200 Black-owned media companies in the United States.[6]
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