And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your

host, David Axelrod.

There are people in life you meet who inspire you, who cause you to think, who give you hope.

And right at the top of the list is Brian Stevenson.

He's devoted his life to representing death row inmates and others who are at the margins

of our society.

And he's called on us to confront America's tortured history on race by creating

the National Memorial for peace and justice in Montgomery to honor the memory of African

Americans all inched in the South from reconstruction to the mid-20th century and with it a related

museum from enslavement to mass incarceration that traces the history of these issues.

I sat down with Brian Stevenson this week at the Institute of Politics to talk about

his life, his work, and the work that America has yet to do.

Brian Stevenson, it is an honor to be with you, to have you here at the Institute of Politics

and here on the podcast.

When people think of Milton Delaware, they don't think of it as a segregated place.

But in the early 60s, when you were growing up there, there were still vestiges of segregation

in your hometown.

Yeah, I think the Eastern Shore is not well understood.

I grew up in what we call the Del Marver Peninsula.

It's the southernmost county of Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia.

And of course, there was a huge space during the 19th century for enslavement.

There were large slave populations there.

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