During Black History Month, WGCU Host/Reporter Bryant Monteilh gives us a daily reminder of the people, places and events who impacted our region. Listen daily throughout February for each new moment in Southwest Florida Black History.

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in 2024, we hear husband and wife Siddharth and Dharani Sridharan talk about how they met through an arranged marriage, their relationship, and building a life together in the U.S.

More Puerto Ricans are coming to the mainland U.S. than just a decade ago, and many are settling in Southwest Florida. Here they seek to build a community that always remembers their homeland.

Naples Zoo officials announced Friday morning that 16-year-old Masamba, their beloved African lion, had been humanely euthanized after suffering several age-related issues.

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in Feb. 2024, lifelong friends Karen Hurst and Cathy Goodacre Smith share childhood memories of growing up on Fort Myers Beach in the 1950s and 60s.

The Point-in-Time count is done annually across the country each year. It's vital to receiving funds to combat homelessness

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in March 2024, we hear Samantha Garcia interview her mother Luzcelina “Lucy” Garcia, about her experience coming to the U.S. from Mexico as an undocumented immigrant when she was just a young teen, earning a master’s degree on her career path in social work, and what led her to create her own non-profit organization OILE, also known as “Healing Stitches.”

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, has been a lifeline for thousands who arrived in the U.S. as children. Even though it doesn’t grant citizenship, for many it provides a safety net, but not without its own set of challenges and uncertainties.

Before too much longer a kitschy example of Old Florida — the Shell Factory & Nature Park in North Fort Myers — will be a thing of the past.However, there are still chances to capture a little bit of the site's nostalgia in the guise of Elvis, Sinatra, Zoltar the fortune teller, a giant shell and several other remaining artifacts.

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in March 2024, we hear Ernesto Lasso de la Vega speaking with his former boss, who would later become the first Calusa Waterkeeper, John Cassani, about Cassani’s early ground-breaking research that created a tool for managing severe aquatic plant overgrowth without the use of pesticides, and how that tool became an industry standard.