Pelfrey sets record tenure at History Center
After serving for 5,465 days, History Center Executive Director Todd Maxwell Pelfrey surpassed the final tenure of 13 predecessors, breaking a nearly 76-year-old record.
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After serving for 5,465 days, History Center Executive Director Todd Maxwell Pelfrey surpassed the final tenure of 13 predecessors, breaking a nearly 76-year-old record.
When I observed what’s happening through mass media and throughout our neighborhoods, cities, counties, and the country, I was compelled to give my opinion.
Midtown Center will be renamed after Julia and Charles W. Cherry, Sr.
Daytona Beach's Midtown Cultural & Educational Center will be named for Charles Cherry, Sr., a longtime city commissioner and NAACP president.
DAYTONA BEACH — As the nation celebrates Black history this month, many people driving through the urban core Midtown neighborhood probably don't realize they're motoring past important city history. A few blocks south of Orange Avenue, there's the 125-year-old boyhood home of Howard Thurman, a mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr. and a friend of Mahatma Gandhi. The Campbell Hotel, one of the only places a Black visitor could stay in Daytona Beach until the mid-1960s, still stands on Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard. The hotel was also the home of The Stardust night club, where musicians s...