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Last year Miles Mulrain Jr. started a series of monthly meetings to talk about solutions to crime in Pine Hills. Mulrain and Emery James of the non profit Let Your Voice Be Heard say other cities are starting to take notice of their approach. They join Intersection to talk about their work to foster peace in the community. And Captain Carlos Torres of the Orange County Sheriff's Office talks about the law enforcement initiative Operation R.I.S.E.

Hundreds of athletes compete in Cincinnati this week at the National Veterans Wheelchair Games, including some from Central Florida.

Eatonville is one of the oldest black towns in the US. Back in the 1980's there were plans to widen a road through the town. Those plans were shelved after residents led an effort to show how the road would destroy the historic character of Eatonville. N.Y. Nathiri of the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community and landscape architect Everett Fly join Intersection to explore why this town has survived where other black towns have not.

Critic Lester Bangs once declared progressive rock "musical sterility at its pinnacle." David Weigel, author of The Show That Never Ends: The Rise And Fall Of Prog Rock, begs to differ.

Commissioners will work through a $3.96 billion budget proposal for Orange County for the 2017-2018 fiscal year.

James Forman Jr., son of civil rights activists, says that African-American leaders seeking to combat drugs and crime often supported policies that disproportionately targeted the black community.

Two entitled young women vacationing on a chic Greek island get involved with a mysterious stranger in Lawrence Osborne's new novel. Critic John Powers calls it a "seductively menacing new thriller."

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson says it’s possible to help Florida’s senior find affordable housing without costing taxpayers more. Carson spoke Monday at LeadingAge Florida’s annual convention in Orlando. LeadingAge Florida represents more than 250 nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and retirement communities across the state.

Companies are asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to approve thousands of miles of pipelines from Appalachia. It's an agency that almost never says no.

Venezuela's opposition held an unauthorized plebiscite on Sunday. More than 7 million Venezuelans cast symbolic votes rejecting the president's plan to overhaul the country's constitution.