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Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Owner(s) | Charles Cherry II and Glenn Cherry |
Founder(s) | Charles W. Cherry Sr. |
Founded | August 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.
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]