The Daytona Times

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The Daytona Times
Type Weekly newspaper
Owner(s)Charles Cherry II and Glenn Cherry
FounderCharles W. Cherry Sr.
FoundedAugust 1978
Headquarters Daytona Beach, Florida
Country United States
Circulation 25,000 [1]
OCLC number 27019747
Website daytonatimes.com

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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References

  1. ↑ "Daytona Times". The Daytona Times. Retrieved April 5, 2025.
  2. 1 2 "About Us". The Daytona Times. Retrieved April 5, 2025.
  3. ↑ "Daytona Times (Daytona Beach, Fla.) 19??-Current". Library of Congress . Retrieved April 5, 2025.
  4. ↑ "Daytona Times Building". daytonabeach.gov. Retrieved April 5, 2025.
  5. ↑ Jealous, Ben (March 30, 2025). "Trump's EPA is at war with the Americans it is supposed to protect". The Daytona Times. Retrieved April 5, 2025.
  6. ↑ "Current Members". NNPA. July 18, 2016. Retrieved April 13, 2025.
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