Dunbar

The Lee Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday voted to move forward with Map Alternative 5 as the selected map for the 2021 redistricting process. One commissioner openly expressed his disappointment in the decision, and advocates wanting to reunite Dunbar and Fort Myers say a lawsuit may be incoming.

The second Lee County redistricting public hearing was open to discuss the proposed maps that could redraw district lines within the county. During the public comment portion, residents and concerned groups called for more inclusion throughout the decision-making process.

In collaboration with the City of Fort Myers Community Redevelopment Agency and the Lee County Black History Society, the Fort Myers Public Art Committee is seeking artists for a public art project at the intersection of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Veronica S. Shoemaker Boulevards.

The year 2020 brought an awakening within journalism about how minority communities are covered. However, one local Southwest Florida paper was years ahead in starting to try and solve that issue. As part of WGCU’s partnership with the Florida Gulf Coast University Journalism department, we’d like to present the story of the The Community Press in Fort Myers’ Dunbar neighborhood by student Jordan Blake.

The walls outside of Historic McCollum Hall in Fort Myers are getting a new look.

A contest launched to select an artist to grace the walls of Dunbar’s historic McCollum Hall has yielded two winners.

This Sunday marks the Easter Holiday and here in Southwest Florida residents are gearing up for a long-held tradition in Fort Myers that today attracts…

The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day March drew hundreds to downtown Fort Myers on Monday.Caroline Massey Harden stood outside Dunbar-Jupiter Hammon…

The excavation of arsenic-laden sludge from a city landfill in Fort Myers' Dunbar community began Thursday.In decades past, the city had used the site to…

The Lee County School District announced Tuesday that it reached a settlement agreement with the Lee County NAACP, following the civil rights complaint…