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 i m pretty disruptive. but i am going back to what inspired me 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. it s called a b.a.m. circle. b.a.m. stands for becoming a man. it s a program that started in chicago in 2001 to mentor and support boys and young men. how s everybody d
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 obama these days are meetings like this one. hey, people. hey, hey. it s called a bam circle, bam stands for becoming a man. a program started in chicago in 2001 to mentor and support boys and young men. how is everybody doing? the idea is to create a place for them to safely and honestly share struggles and successes, issues at home, in school or on the streets. president obama fi
and who by his own account didn t find his way until his late teens. he writes about that and balanced governing being a husband and dad in his recently published book a promise land. we dropped in on the former president in chicago visiting a high school to talk about their lives and the challenges they face. are you going back to community organizing? 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 follows me around so i m disruptive. i am going back to what inspired me 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. it s called a bam circle, bam stands for becoming a man. a program started in chicago in 2001 to mentor and support boys and young men. how is everybody doing? the idea is to create a place for them to safely and honestly share struggles and successes, issues at home, in
leadership and legacy. after leaving the white house, president obama mostly stayed out of politics. though, last year, he did campaign for president biden. the former president, and former-first lady have signed production deals with netflix. they both started podcasts, and mr. obama has continued his work with the program he launched, while he was in the white house called my brother s keeper. it s now part of the obama foundation. its mission is to provide support for what it calls pathways of opportunity to young men of color. it s a deeply personal mission, for president obama, who grew up hardly knowing his own father. and who, by his own account, didn t find his way until his late teens. he writes about this, as well as how he balanced governing with being a husband and dad in his recently-published book a promise land. we dropped in a high school where he was visiting with a young men who had been part of my brother s keeper to talk about their lives and the chall
banning vaccine passports and for that he should be applauded. the vaccine passport controversy is a small part of the larger discussion about vaccine hesitancy and are push to shame or those who have not been vaccinated. let s get this out of the way. in no way am i anti-vaccination. i had covid last spring and i just recently after learning that my antibodies were gone, i got the vaccine. but i had had to think about it i had to do my own research. i had to ask a lot of questions. after all the vaccines are basically brand new and authorized for emergency use. and even though so farther data surrounding them looks good, that data is still emerging. and i understand the reservations of my community given the way black soldiers were treated during the tuskegee experiment. i think it s fair that we should be allowed to check if the water is fine before dipping our toes in the pool. the problem is we gave away too many personal freedoms to the federal government at the beginnin