but first we will visit marcus books known for being the oldest african-american bookstores in the country. >> when my parents for started marcus books their purpose was to offer this research feeling that black people, a place to go where they could learn about themselves from other black people so it was a service they were providing to the community but also the community at large because the more other cultures, of a more battered is for everybody. marcus bookstore is the oldest

black bookstore in the country, just starting our 56 year, the name is from marcus garvey, the black nationalist leader, came here and went back to africa, lots of books in here. and started in 1960, doctors ray and julie and richards who met as teenagers. and wind up in california, my father majored lithography so he opened a printing business, which they hated dierdre.

and finding books about black people, looking for these books. they would get books and loan to friends and friends wouldn't give them back and started ordering one copy and eventually started putting books in the window of the shop and it grew into this wonderful institution here and did a lot of printing for black churches and black businesses and moved from that. and this is terry but out of print. so he became a publisher as well. we talk about the 60s one the black arts movement is going on, civil rights movement, black

power movement, people were hungry for information and we provide a forum for speakers to come in, organizations to meet, place to organize and share our thoughts and strategies. it was well received. >> we are in the back of marcus bookstore which is marcus printing company now. this operation is run by my brother billy, the stained-glass you saw outside. is here is the oldest press the we have, not the oldest we ever had. when my dad started printing, they had to make their own type and my brothers learned how to do that when my sister and i got

a job collating or sweeping, making to the fish sandwiches, i did have done in the, typesetter a little later. i remember when my father was able to afford a brand new press it was an exciting time, was very proud of it. this young man comes in the store and wants to know if he had a job and my dad asked what his name was and he said morgan freeman. what can you do? he said i am a dancer and my dad said we can't use any dancers around here but he offered to show him how to work the press. we call him the dancing pressman and one day he wound up dancing, doing something and dropped a monkey wrench into the brand new

press for a $10,000 fix. but my dad being who he was said you really need to get on with your career, you want to go to new york and gave him the money to get out there and get away from his press. >> we had really big authors here, big list authors, unknown authors, head starts, we had terry mcmillan, she became a very good friend to a quarter of the store. we had tony morrison which everybody shivering in their boots, speechless meeting her and turned out to be so

down-to-earth and wonderful. probably the biggest event we ever had was muhammad ali. that was a tremendous. a line four deep, down the corner, around the corner to the next street and that lasted four five hours and he was kind enough to stay here told time. that everybody sit on his lap, take his picture or shake his hand, very gracious. i think the community appreciates this and they let us know that. they support us in every possible way. the understand the importance of resources and knowledge about them in their community and i think more and more people are understanding most of the black bookstores have shutdown and not only because of online shopping or big box stores but also lack of consciousness in the

community that doesn't send them in here searching for the knowledge. i was asked to speak at a junior high school middle school and these are mid teenagers and it was for martin luther king's birthday and finally, talking on and on about martin luther king and getting blank looks so i stopped and that you do all know who martin luther king is, right? hispanic girl raised her hand and gave me the wrong answer and young brother raised his hand and said he freed the slaves. they were not playing. they were not lacking. they didn't know. they didn't have a clue. so i asked them if they knew who the black panthers were and somebody says we know who the pink panther is. they were just clueless. there was a disconnect somewhere where they don't understand

their history, what that means to them today so they don't feel indeed to come, learned about they were ignorant of the fact they don't know that they don't know all the we see more and more lots of younger folks coming through which is great. not an hour goes by that somebody doesn't tell from something. that makes us happy and still on that path. >> while on our trip to oakland, calif. we spoke with believe brady whose book "humboldt" discusses humboldt, calif. known for its farming of marijuana. >> i wrote this book because i was really curious about the community of marijuana farmers. i grew up in northern

california. in washington treat. i knew further north there was this region, going mainstream and what happens when a community of people grow marijuana that is against the law? how does that affect their lives? and located in northern california, to the oregon border. humboldt is a world community, heartland of the marijuana industry, 20,000 people, a couple thousand and would you like the big city in the county, maybe 15,000 people. i