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

host, David Axelrod.

Not that many folks knew of Dorema Kesson other than perhaps the students whose lives he

touched as a teacher and an administrator in the New York and Minneapolis public schools

until August of 2014 when he felt moved to go down and join the protests in Ferguson,

Missouri, after the killing of Michael Brown.

In that post-Ferguson period, he became one of the nation's best known organizers, protesters,

spokespeople around the issue of police community relations, and one of the most visible figures

in what has become the Black Lives Matter movement, including helping to lead the campaign

zero platform to help reduce police shootings in minority communities.

He ran a somewhat quicksotic race for mayor of Baltimore earlier this year and is currently

a fellow at the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago.

I sat down with Dorey the other day to talk about the state of police community relations,

the state of the Black community writ large and politics in the politics of 2016.

Dorey, welcome.

I first want to thank you for being a fellow at the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago.

You're a great presence here and we appreciate that and thanks for being here.

You know, everybody who comes here has a story.

Some stories are better than others.

Yours is a truly unique and inspiring story.

Tell me about it.

Tell me about how you got to this point and what your childhood was like and that experience

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