A Speedway surprise for veterans
Service men and women receive free tickets to race, autographed memorabilia
Daytona 500 Champion Joey Logano and longtime Daytona International Speedway ticket holders surprised 22...
Juneteenth festival in Daytona an annual day for entertainment and education
BY PENNY DICKERSON
DAYTONA TIMES
Local residents can celebrate African-American history for free on Saturday at the 15th annual Juneteenth Family Festival at the Cypress Park...
B-CU mourns death of former quarterback, football and basketball coach
SPECIAL TO THE DAYTONA TIMES
Raymon Thornton, one of the top quarterbacks in Bethune-Cookman history and a member of the University’s Athletics Hall of Fame...
STEM majors receiving up to $25,000 a year for college
BY FREDDIE ALLEN
NNPA NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON – When Morgan Grayned opened the envelope from the Buick Achievers’ scholarship program and learned that she would receive...
Blacks ‘segregated’ in low-paying retail jobs
BY JAZELLE HUNT
NNPA NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON – More than 1.9 million Black Americans work in retail, accounting for 11 percent of the industry’s total workforce....
Daytona to stop asking about criminal convictions
City announces plan to ban checkbox from job applications
BY PENNY DICKERSON
DAYTONA TIMES
Daytona Beach joined a growing number of cities around the country this week...
Professor’s new book examines Dr. Bethune’s activism in Florida
BY PENNY DICKERSON
DAYTONA TIMES
The contributions of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune will be given literary homage in a new book by Dr. Ashley Robertson, curator,...
Say a prayer for Leah
Cincinnati Bengals defensive lineman Devon Still is seeking prayers for his 5-year-old daughter, Leah, who has been battling cancer for a year. The girl...
‘PURSUING LIBERTY IN THE FACE OF INJUSTICE’
That was the theme of the Volusia County-NAACP’s 42nd Annual Freedom Fund and Awards Banquet held May 30 at the Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront...
Sorority honors ‘professor, mentor, sister’
Dr. Cleo Higgins, longtime educator at Bethune-Cookman, honored at gala
BY DAYTONA TIMES STAFF
For more than 40 years, Dr. Cleo S. Higgins was an esteemed...
