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B-CU ROUNDUP

Track and bowling highlight Wildcats sports action BY ANDREAS BUTLER DAYTONA TIMES The Lady Wildcats’ bowling team went 2-2 in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Bowling Championships at AMF Chesapeake Lanes in Chesapeake, Va. Bethune-Cookman (60-65) is currently ranked 20th in the latest National TinPin Coaches Association poll. B-CU entered the MEAC tournament as the sixth [...]

March 28, 2013No CommentRead More

No-shows by most elected officials irk F.A.I.T.H.

Few that show up pledge to do something about Volusia’s jobless and homeless issues BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES STAFF More than 2,000 Volusia County residents packed the Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Performing Arts Center on March 18 for F.A.I.T.H.’s (Fighting Against Injustice Towards Harmony) annual Action Assembly. Just a few elected representatives were present [...]

March 21, 2013No CommentRead More

Dutton to speak, Wright to sing at Daytona NAACP banquet

For more information on the banquet Call the NAACP office at 386-255-3736 or stop by the office at the John H. Dickerson Center, 308 S. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Daytona Beach. BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES Actor and civil rights activist Charles Dutton will be the speaker for the Volusia County-Daytona Beach NAACP’s [...]

March 21, 2013No CommentRead More

State data shows there are qualified minorities for Speedway renovation

Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of stories on the plight of minority contractors who try to get work on major construction projects. BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES STAFF Saying there are no Volusia County minority contractors is not an excuse Daytona International Speedway officials can use when they begin work on [...]

March 21, 2013No CommentRead More

Henrys denounce gun violence, tout education at slain teen’s funeral

BY ANDREAS BUTLER DAYTONA TIMES More than 300 people, some standing, packed New Life World Ministries’ sanctuary in Daytona Beach last Saturday for the funeral of Ji’Ron Jeffrey Dent, also known as “Boobie.’’ Dent 17, died on March 7 from a gunshot wound suffered two days earlier during an incident that took place in the [...]

March 21, 2013No CommentRead More

‘March Against the Madness,’ gun buyback program in works for May 18

BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES Bringing people together and working toward a solution against gun violence and domestic abuse will be the focus of a “March Against the Madness” set for May 18. It is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. from Derbyshire Park near Hope Fellowship Church in Daytona Beach. Bishop Derek T. Triplett, [...]

March 21, 2013No CommentRead More

AIDS network to host ‘I Am My Brothers/Sisters Keeper’ conference

The Minority AIDS Network of Volusia/Flagler is hosting the “I Am My Brother/Sister’s Keeper” Conference from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on March 30 at Bethune-Cookman University’s L. Gale Lemerand School of Nursing, 739 W. International Speedway Blvd., Daytona Beach. The keynote speaker is HIV/AIDS activist and Jacksonville native Renee’ LadyByrd Burgess. The mother of [...]

March 21, 2013No CommentRead More

DAYTONA TIMES OUT & ABOUT

One more glance at Bike Week 2013 Bike Week 2013 kicked off on March 8 and culminated on March 17. Photographer Duane Fernandez captured the images of bikers having a grand time the last weekend of the annual event. The heart of Bike Week activities in Black Daytona occur on Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard [...]

March 21, 2013No CommentRead More

Southern governor breaks with the past

There are some painful things from my childhood in segregated Tuscaloosa, Ala., that I will never forget. At the top of the list is Gov. George C. Wallace’s June 11, 1963 “Stand in the School House Door” at the University of Alabama. I had just completed my sophomore year at Druid High School when Wallace [...]

March 21, 2013No CommentRead More

Being moral only when it’s convenient

As a result of Ohio’s Republican Senator Rob Portman’s declaration last week that he now supports homosexual marriage, I am once again compelled to ask: Why are Christians and conservatives constantly apologizing for what they believe? Portman said he changed his position because his son told him that he was homosexual. Typically, I would not [...]

March 21, 2013No CommentRead More