henrietta and ronald enjoy their oakland home.y applied to refinance their mortgage at the beginning of this year, but were denied. their credit report listed a second home the couple owned as a foreclosure. the fabios say their credit report had not been properly updated. >> the foreclosure never went through. >> reporter: the couple received a modification, but as late as this year, their credit report from transunion still listed the home as a foreclosure. >> everybody kept saying, you have a foreclosure onour record. >> reporter: transunion w the only credit bureau that listed a foreclosure. henrietta set they sent transunion the proof but nothing changed. suzanne is with consumers union. >> their processes may be relatively automated. they may just be checking boxes. if they check their records, and it appears the information is still accurate, they may not do anything, so you may have to be persistent. >> reporter: the couple wasn't ready to give up. >> for me, i'm thinking, i'm going to find a way. >> reporter: henrietta dr

henrietta and ronald enjoy their oakland home.hey applied to refinance their mortgage at the beginning of this year, but were denied. their credit report listed a second home the couple owned as a foreclosure. the fabios say their credit report had not been properly updated. >> the foreclosure never went through. >> reporter: the couple received a modification, but as late as this year, their credit report from transunion still listed the home as a foreclosure. >> everybody kept saying, you have a foreclosure on your record. >> reporter: transunion was the only credit bureau that listed a foreclosure. henrietta set they sent transunion the proof but nothing changed. suzanne is with consumers union. >> their processes may be relatively automated. they may just be checking boxes. if they check their records, and it appears the information is still accurate, they may not do anything, so you may have to be persistent. >> reporter: the couple wasn't ready to give up. >> for me, i'm thinking, i'm going to find a way. >> reporter: henrie

the african-americans who cooked for roosevelt would often be doing their thing and henrietta nesbittwould come up behind them and adjust the seasoning. whatever they were making she messed it up so the food never worked out. but i want to point out the african-americans i did find through my research and i did a lot here looking for resident staff. the main part of my research was old newspapers. a lot of companies are digitizing and if you can just figure out the terms used at that time you can find out a lot about the cooks. i found ida allen, the chief cook. the term white house executive chef does not come into existence until 1961. jacqueline kennedy created that term. the four that there called first cook, head cook, or chief cook. then there is armstead burnett who started as a pantry man, worked in the white house for a long time and then he leaves during the johnson administration to start his catering business in the washington, d.c. area. daisy who i mentioned, james carter, there was a jimmy carter in the white house before president carter. loretta deans who is assistant

>> given the discussion in the importance of it today especially with the henrietta lacks becoming more forefront with the hbo movie, have you seen the hbo movie and do you think think you gave justice to the issue at hand? >> the movie was a movie. you know, it was made for tv. tremendous acting job, but you could not get in the movie the whole back story about the cells and their use and it was meant to be a drama and that's what it was. i would recommend anyone that saw the movie and is intrigued the book is richer and that's often the case with books or versus movies, i would say. yes? >> this is a comment more than a question, but a couple months ago i started working at johns hopkins and i work with quite a number of african-american people who are incredibly well-educated and still have fear about visiting certain parts of the hospital. i mean, that affect of that is not just the community that lives around the hospital. it's cute how much damage that is. >> the story you said you would tell us about the other woman a scientist who had gotten punished and relegated to the lab. >>

henrietta, my twin sister, has been teaching for 30 years. she is retiring this week. she has 10 kids graduating, all african-americans, with high school diplomas. she stayed two extra years to make sure that they were graduate -- would graduate. their graduation was an amazing highlight, not only for her, but for the school. they got awards. she made sure one of her kids got a two-year scholarship to college. and these were kids -- she is a self-contained teacher -- and these were kids who have been, before now, not considered -- let into the educational environment. i see a lot of states -- and it's kind of backwards -- a lot trouble withe special needs kids so they, pass kids.ecial needs they don't want to be identified as not being taken care of. but it works for us. then our kids can get scholarships and attend the schools that they want to attend, which oftentimes lead to -- i don't know about other states, but arkansas is one of the few states where kids don't get a certificate of completion. diploma.ally get a and a have to have just as many credits as everybod