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Michael Brown had just walked out of Buck’s Gun Rack in Daytona Beach this week with a .22-caliber Ruger handgun. The DeLand resident, who is Black, is a gun collector. The pistol was just another firearm to add to his collection. But he could understand why sales of firearms have been soaring.  “Every time there’s an issue it seems like the gun shops just empty their guns,” said Brown, 69. “People just want to feel safe with their guns. They want to feel safe in their homes and they think things are going to happen.”  More Black people are buying guns, according to Brown. He s...

Healthy Souls International, a disaster relief nonprofit that helped feed people in the Bahamas and Puerto Rico after intense hurricanes devastated the islands, plans to take on a new cause: an afterschool program for at-risk youth.   The program will be open to up to 20 high school students across Volusia County who might be homeless or on probation. The teens can be referred through school counselors, probation officers or other officials. The new cause hits close to home for the founder of the nonprofit, who had a car accident that wiped out her finances when her youngest of three...

The Publix store in Palm Coast’s Town Center is one of four Publix locations where vaccines are being made available, by appointment only. (© FlaglerLive) Publix Supermarkets is making “a limited number of Covid-19 vaccines” available at four Publix stores in Flagler County starting now. But as has been the case with vaccines offered by local health departments in Flagler and elsewhere, all available vaccine appointments were snapped up as soon as they were made available.  Appointments may be made online here. But expect to get this message: “Please check back again shortly, as mor...

Email It was once a bustling main street of Daytona's Black community. Can it be reinvigorated? Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard thrived for decades, but then it was taken down by urban renewal, desegregation and apathy. Eileen Zaffiro-Kean, The Daytona Beach News-Journal Published 5:36 pm UTC Jan. 3, 2021 DAYTONA BEACH — A stroll down Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard can be eerie. The sidewalks and road are often deserted along much of the central city corridor. Whispers of a happier past waft around the century-old structures that flank the mostly vacant thoroughfare. It feels like a worn o...

Midtown, Daytona Beach's historic Black neighborhood, struggles to find a better future Midtown overcame the height of segregation and racism once before in the 1900s. Now the community hopes to rise again. Eileen Zaffiro-Kean, The Daytona Beach News-Journal Published 5:06 pm UTC Jan. 3, 2021 DAYTONA BEACH — Imagine being forced to live, shop, worship, study and socialize in only one impoverished part of town that you had nothing to do with choosing. There would be no walls or gates. But the area would be penned in by local laws and mores that dictated which hours of the day you could come ...