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The 239 is a place where artists are chasing the hip hop dream through microphones in closets and judging success through YouTube hits. Motivations are plenty — money, a way out of the hood, therapy, communication, artistic collaboration. In Naples and Fort Myers, Fla., an underground community of emcees, producers, [...]

Bethany Brodowsky has been in the foster system since she was 13, after being sexually abused as a child. Now 18, she is out of foster care and must find her own way. “Abuse pretty well condemns a human being to a life of feeling separate from other people, different [...]

This is a look at the three historically black churches in Naples, Fla., during the 100-year anniversary of the NAACP.

Elvis Presley lives as 16 men participate in the Elvis Tribute Artist competition during Elvis Fest 3 at Seminole Casino Immokalee.

Bells chime as customers walk through the door of Silvio’s Shoe Repair on Ninth Street in Naples. It’s a sound Silvio has heard six-days-a-week since he opened the store 1980.

Over the squeak of the wheels and rattling of carts, over the beep of the checkout counter and the crying babies — the constant noise that is Costco Wholesale in Naples on a Saturday afternoon — the voice of the sample lady can be heard. “If I wasn’t loud, the [...]

These days, more young women are entering a religious order. But, they are a little different than the nuns who came before them.