Black Lives Matter

The last few months have brought together veteran activists and people newly motivated to join protests over racial inequality and police brutality. Journalist and activist T.J. Legacy Cole joins Intersection to talk about the protest movement, the Black Lives Matter mural in downtown Orlando, and police reform.

On Monday Orlando Rolón, the Orlando Police Chief, told the city council that the police department would ban chokeholds and no-knock warrants. It’s part of a range of reforms activists have been calling for amid protests sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody in May. Rolón joined Intersection to discuss how his department is responding to calls for reform.

They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Few would claim that city leaders had anything but the best intentions in mind when they painted…

These songs take on some of the ugliest stories in our history and reflect the commitment of Black musicians to telling the truth of how Black people have been wronged, and survived, and fought back.

Local leaders and children from the Parramore Kidz Zone and City of Orlando summer camps painted a Black Lives Matter mural on Rosalind Avenue in front of Lake Eola in downtown Orlando today.

The Splash Mountain ride at Disney parks in California and Florida is being recast.

Today marks the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth.

Coffman died in June 2018--Crump wants his case reopened by the FDLE.

Charlene Stinard is one of thousands of people who have protested in Orlando after the death of George Floyd. She grew up demonstrating during the Civil Rights era and attended Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream Speech". This is why she protests.

Protests over racial injustice continued for a third straight weekend in the U.S. and in at least two foreign capitals following the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.