for more information on robert churchill, go to hartford.edu for joshua horowitz you can go to jhsph.edu. >> university of maryland sociology professor patricia hill collins said public education is heavily influenced by the media and influence of institutional racism. busboys and poets in washington, d.c. hosted this event. it's an hour, 15 minutes. >> i am thrilled to be here tonight. i have a tremendous admiration for busboys and poets and what is done here on a regular basis. and i have tremendous admiration for teaching for change, which is an organization that i'm now consulting with. and i am a tremendous admirer of our author tonight. for those of you who have not heard of patricia hill collins, you're in for quite a session tonight. and if you haven't bought the book yet, talk about shameless plugs -- if you haven't bought the book yet, get it before it's sold out because it's fabulous. let me give you a little bit of information about her background. professor collins is a distinguished university professor of sociology at the university of maryland. she serves as president of

joshua horowitz is the executive director of the coalition to stop gun violence. he is a visiting scholar at john hopkins bloomberg school of public health and he is the co-author with casey anderson of "guns, democracy, and the insurrectionist idea." >> my name is josh horowitz, thank you very much for having me tonight. as professor churchill said i'm the co-author of "guns, democracy and the insurrectio insurrectionist idea." i am very pleased to be here and i want to thank professor horowitz for being here, this is his brain child and thank you very much for doing that. i wrote -- casey and i wrote this book and we tout about this book as a critique of the idea that unfettered access to firearms keeps us free, so today in this debate, we're not necessarily talking about the right to conceal-carry, the ability to own assault weapons. what we're talking about is the idea that political violence is authorized -- with arms is authorized under the constitution, is that part of our second amendment legacy and then of course, is that something that's healthy and good