December 18, 2012 – Segment 1

Picking up where yesterday’s two hour special on the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting left off, we have a conversation around race and gender in both Friday’s tragedy and other instances of mass violence in America.

Our guests are Michael Kimmel, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Stony Brook University in New York, founder and editor of the academic journal Men and Masculinities, and spokesperson of The National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS); and Edward Wyckoff Williams, contributing editor at The Root and political analyst who has appeared on Al Jazeera, MSNBC, and CBS.