diane sawyer has one family's story. >> her name is abena horton.he is a labor and employment attorney. this is her husband alex horton, an artist. last june they set out to get an appraisal of their home in jacksonville, florida, hoping to refinance and pay down the mortgage. a on home filled with photos and books and love. her family, his family. but when the appraiser came, she said she felt something unsettling. >> it clicked in my mind almost immediately why did i let myself forget that i live in america as a black person and that i need to take some extra steps to get a fair result. >> the appraisal comes back. it is shockingly low. even the bank couldn't make sense of that number. so she decided to get a second appraisal with a new appraiser, same house, but something different. >> back with another edition of the things that we are taking down from our walls, pictures of me, black panther. ♪ >> she took down all the photos of her family, replacing them only with photos of her husband and his white family. and he is the person in the home whe

here now, diane sawyer. >> very sad about doing this. wanted to document it. >> reporter: a woman in florida is recording the moment she has decided to do something really hard. >> because it does seem like one of the few ways that we can achieve economic fairness, by just having my husband be in a house by himself and taking down all evidence that he has a black family. >> reporter: her name is abine horton. she is a labor and employment attorney. this is her husband, alex horton, an artist. last june, they set out to get an appraisal of their home in jacksonville, florida, hoping to refinance and pay down the mortgage. a home filled with books and photos and love. her family, his family. but when the appraiser came, abine was there and said she felt something unsettling. >> it clicked in my mind almost immediately that i understand what the issue was here. why did i let myself forget that i live in america as a black person? and that i need to take some extra steps to get a fair result? >> reporter: the appraisal comes back. it is shoc

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this is what diane sawyer, barbara walters, right?eading that i kept thinking to myself the whole chapter on obama on kind of the obama part of this, given it was the festival. given of chicago he was the first chief of staff to president obama. those are part of the book i was really favoring i have to say. >> is favoring a journalist and is a documented person. he was yet to really see a full bracketing. for me the first time i am seeing it in writing. in the book. could you talk to us a little bit about what that was like? that event you are m seeing in washington d.c. was honoring the first latino supreme court justice. in introducing president obama. knowing the feeling in your stomach that's wait a second house is really going to turn out? utility described it like such a good journalist. this scene is that after george w bush were i did not have much access in the white house. suddenly obama is elected. the congressional hispanic caucus is holding this big event, this big gala. there's a vip tent. now i am in the vip tent. it's

this is like diane sawyer, barbara walters, like, right?ng that i kept thinking to myself, the whole chapter on obama, i kind of the obama part of this, given since this is the chicago humanities festival, given that rahm emanuel was the first chief of staff to president obama. that was part of the book i was savoring, i have to say. savoring as a journalist as an undocumented person who is yet to really see and read, have full reckoning that for me for the first time i'm seeing in writing. can you talk to us about what that was like, that event that you are seeing in washington, d.c., honoring soda sotomayor and then introducing president obama and knowing that feeling interests them, we do, how is is going to turn out. >> you to describe it like such a good journalist. you would write into the scene because the scene is that after george w. bush where i didn't have much access, you know, in the white house come suddenly obama is elected, the congressional hispanic caucus is holding this big event, this big gala pictures of the at beacon a

this is, like, diane sawyer, barbara walters. right?was reading that i, i kept thinking to myself the whole chapter on obama, on kind of the obama part of this -- [inaudible] given that rahm emmanuel used to be the mayor of chicago, given that rahm i man well was the first chief of staff to president obama, that was one of the parts of the book that i was really savoring, i have to say. as a journalist and as an undocumented person who has yet to really see and read kind of the full reckoning that, for me, for the first time i've seen in writing in the book. >> yeah. >> can you talk about what that was like to, that event that you were emceeing in washington, d.c. with, you know, honoring sonia sotomayor, the first latina supreme court justice and introducing president obama and knowing that, feeling in your stomach, wait a second, how is this really going to turn out? >> you totally described that as just such a good journalist. yeah, you went right into the scene. because the scene is, you know, after george w. bush where i didn't hav

. >> and a look back at a ground-breaking investigation with diane sawyer. >> how many black people in