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At their meeting Wednesday night, Daytona city commissioners will take votes on a north Beach Street revamp and a 300-unit downtown apartment project.
Daytona Times photojournalist Duane C. Fernandez Sr. has been awarded a grant through the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) that will allow him to create a documentary about COVID-19 and its impact on the Black community in Daytona Beach and beyond. The funding from NABJ is supporting journalists at Black-owned media outlets through the organizationâs âBlack Press Grant Program.â The program is supported by a $300,000 grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). NABJ is an organization of 4,000 journalists, students, media-related professionals and educ...
DAYTONA BEACH — Petra Smiley's new home isn't exactly one of those tony riverfront estates with lush tropical landscaping, a backyard pool and deck for moonlit parties, and a dock to park the family yacht. Her house is a 1,250-square-foot concrete block structure built when Richard Nixon was president and located in a no-frills neighborhood just east of Nova Road near Bellevue Avenue. But to Smiley, a longtime dweller of cramped apartments, it's the castle she's been dreaming of for more than a decade. The four-bedroom home has plenty of space for her and her two small children, there...
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 ...