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Didn't find his way until his late teens. he writes about that as well as how he balanced governing with being a husband and a dad in his recently published book "a promised land." we dropped in on the former president in chicago, in a high school where he was visiting with a group of young men who have been part of "my brother's keeper" to talk about their lives and the challenges they face. are you going back to community organizing? >> well, you know, probably i'm a little too gray-haired and old to be going door to door like i used to be, and plus secret service still follows me around so ...

How he balanced governing with being a husband and a dad in his recently published book "a promised land." we dropped in on the former president in chicago, in high school where he was visiting with a group of young men who have been part of my brother's keeper to talk about their lives and the challenges they face. >> are you going back to community organizing? >> well, you know, probably i'm a little too gray-haired and old to be going door to door like i used to be. plus secret service still follows me around, so i'm pretty disruptive. but i am going back to what inspired me to get into pub...

Late teens. he writes that that as well as how he balanced governing with being a dad. we join him in chicago in a high school where he was visiting with a group of young men who were part of my brother's keeper to talk about their lives and the challenges they face. >> are you going back to community organizing? >> well, probably i'm a little too old and gray haired to be going door to door like i used to be. plus secret service follows me around which is pretty disruptive. i am going back to what inspired me to get into public life. >> one of the thing that inspires former president barack o...

Community organizing? >> well, you know, i -- probably, i'm a little too gray-haired and old to be going door to door, like i used to be. and plus, secret service, still, follows me around so i'm pretty disruptive. but i am going back to what inspired me to -- to get into public life. >> one of the things that inspires former-president barack obama, these days, are meetings like this one. >> hey, people. >> hey, hey. >> reporter: it's called a bam circle. bam stands for becoming a man. a program that started in chicago in 2001 to mentor and support boys and young men. >> how is everybody doing...

Long ago, a hundred years ago, so few officials until relatively recently were even willing to discuss it publicly at all. it hadn't been taught in schoolbooks up until the mid-2000s, which is insane when you think about it. evidence was disappearing from old police department records. you had old newspaper clips disappearing from the city libraries. and so to have president biden here today talking about confronting the truth and reconciling with what actually happened here was met with some optimism here because the narrative still has not been centered on this community. i'm here on this st...