Local religious and education leaders, public figures, activists and residents from across Brevard County met Tuesday night at the Catherine Schweinsberg Rood Central Library in Cocoa to talk race.
What emerged from the dialogue was a sense that the very notion of community, on the Space Coast and across the country, is under assault. The way forward, participants decided, is that it's up to individuals in the community to pull it back from the brink.
"The divisions, the separation, the...