ms. elliott? mary: i am fine, thank you. caller: i am 44, i will be 45 in april. when i was growing up, my mom had african-american encyclopedias in the home. so reading from those when i was a kid, and also my elementary school charles drew, named after a black man. so i went there from first grade to fifth-grade, and they had all the pictures of black people, martin luther king, whoever and they had a bio on. so you would start memorizing who these people are. if i was not in african-american school, and my mom did not have those encyclopedias at home, there was a lot of history i would not know. in 2017, it seems like black people don't take that as serious as they did 30, 40, 50 years ago. i was wondering how do we get back to that to where we care about where we come from and our culture and everything? host: let her response. mary: that is a great question. i will tell you that when i grew up, and i am older than you, when i grew up, my dad had several 8.5 by 11 cards he got from ebony magazine. a history week. we had to go around the house, and we had to me