Gary Younge: Another Day in the Death of America

On an average day seven Americans aged 19 or younger are shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of ten of these lives lost on one random day—November 23, 2013. Younge’s narrative crisscrosses the country from suburban Ohio to Chicago’s South Side to rural Michigan to put a human face—a child’s face—on the “collateral damage” of gun violence. This is not a book about gun control, but about what happens in a country where it does not exist. Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell joins Younge for this conversation.

This program is presented in partnership with Leadership Greater Chicago and Haymarket Books.