CHARLOTTESVILLE, May 4 -- Descendants of slave Sally Hemings, declaring they were tired of drawing hostile stares at gatherings hosted by white kin of Thomas Jefferson, said today that they will ...

A commission of scholars issued a report yesterday challenging an earlier study that had indicated Thomas Jefferson fathered children with his slave Sally Hemings. After a year of work, the ...

Thomas Jefferson served as the U.S. minister to France between 1784 to 1789. In 1787, he was joined in Paris by his youngest daughter, Maria, and Sally Hemings, an enslaved teenager on his ...

Before Michelle Obama there was Sally Hemings, who bore the sons and daughters of Thomas Jefferson. Subscribe. Log In. Minnesota News You Can Use. Subscribe. The Latest. 18 minutes ago.

'Thomas Jefferson', the History channel's new six-part documentary series examines the complicated legacy of the third U.S. president, including the start of his relationship with Sally Hemings ...

Sally Hemings might be a household name these days, but we still know so little about the relationship between Hemings and Thomas Jefferson.Yet, Hemings endures as a figure of endless fascination ...

In Act 2 of “The Reclamation of Madison Hemings,” a Charles Smith play that is a good deal more visceral than its academic title suggests, a character named Madison Hemings, played at American ...