Doechii called for justice as she accepted her win for best female hip-hop artist, while Kendrick Lamar took home five ...

DAYTONA BEACH — Her solitary grave rests among the serene beauty of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach. Yet, the ...

On October 3, 1904, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune opened a training school in Daytona Beach, Florida, with “$1.50, faith in God and five little girls.” Eventually, that school, then called the ...

The good news is that with the legacy of people like Mary McLeod Bethune, thinking about the private girls school she started in Daytona Beach, which of course became one of the great historically ...

Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune re-created by the hands of master ... Central Florida first at the turn of the 20th century, opening a school to educate young Black women in Daytona Beach.

But as I experienced so vividly in Mayesville, listening to the Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Legacy Children’s Choir sing, “Who built the school? Sister Mary built the school!” — the song with ...

With only $1.50 in seed funding — a reality hardly imaginable now and meager even then—Mary Jane McLeod ... and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls was born. Dr. Bethune understood ...

Mary McLeod Bethune is perhaps most remembered for founding the school now known as Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida, which she started as a girls school in 1904. She also was ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – On Monday, the Whalemobile arrived at Mary McLeod Bethune School No. 45. A life-size whale, a 40-foot replica that provides students with a visual way to see the scale and ...

A statue of Mary McLeod Bethune was unveiled Wednesday in the ... the founder of the Daytona Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls, which became Bethune-Cookman University ...

Mary McLeod Bethune was a civil rights activist and founder of the National Council of Negro Women, an educator who, against insurmountable odds, opened a school in 1904 for Black girls in Florida ...

Mary McLeod Bethune was born in 1875 to former slaves. Found school for girls in 1904 with only $1.50. Friendship with first lady leads to federal appointment at National Youth Administration ...