DAYTONA BEACH — After an arduous five-year process that involved a series of state and federal approvals, a fundraising effort that generated nearly $1 million, logistical challenges and unimagined ...

DAYTONA BEACH — In the final moments before the unveiling of the historic marble statue of Mary McLeod Bethune about 800 miles away in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol, one could’ve heard a pin drop ...

DAYTONA BEACH — After an arduous five-year process that involved a series of state and federal approvals, a fundraising effort that generated nearly $1 million, logistical challenges and unimagined ...

DAYTONA BEACH — The Washington, D.C., – bound Mary McLeod Bethune statue made a brief layover in Bethune's South Carolina hometown Friday for a ceremony that included at least one of the revered civil ...

My visit to Daytona Beach took place in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. In November of 2021, my husband, Bill, and I, armed with disinfecting wipes and lots of masks, boarded a plane for the first ...

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DAYTONA BEACH — It's taken five years to get from the idea of creating a statue honoring Mary McLeod Bethune that would stand inside the U.S. Capitol building to being on the cusp of seeing it ...

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An 11-foot marble likeness of civil-rights leader and educator Mary McLeod Bethune was unveiled Wednesday in the U.S. Capitol, replacing a statue of a former Confederate general that represented ...

A Florida champion of civil and women’s rights took the spotlight Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol National Statuary Hall with the unveiling of a marble statue of Central Florida icon Mary McLeod Bethune ...

Ten months after a marble statue of Our Lady of Fatima in the Rosary Walk and Garden outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception was vandalized and destroyed beyond repair ...