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. In August 1978, the
Westside Rapper was succeeded by
The Daytona Times, as "The Black Voice of East Central Florida". Former NAACP president and
2018 Maryland gubernatorial candidate
Ben Jealous has been a
contributing editor for
The Daytona Times. 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. ==See also==