CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Hundreds of people count themselves as descendants of Thomas Jefferson. And their numbers grew substantially after a DNA test in 1998 bolstered the case for Jefferson’s ...

The Monticello Association, which has about 1,000 members, has adamantly denied membership to descendants of Jefferson's black slave, Sally Hemings, citing lack of evidence that Thomas Jefferson ...

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 ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — At the call for pictures, members of Thomas Jefferson's family and descendants of his slaves once again crowded between columns of the president's hilltop estate of ...

For three years, the descendants of slave Sally Hemings have attended family reunions at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello plantation, touring the historic grounds outside Charlottesville alongside ...

He expanded the educational mission of Thomas Jefferson’s plantation. He also embraced research that showed Jefferson had fathered the children of one of his slaves. By Richard Sandomir Six ...

The descendants of some of the most well-known civil rights activists of the 1950s and 1960s and other prominent historical leaders gathered ... Sally Hemings, Ida B. Wells, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - An organization for descendants of Thomas Jefferson voted Sunday not to extend membership to descendants of one of Jefferson's slaves reputed to have borne several of ...

Thomas Jefferson's heirs are proposing the creation of a separate cemetery on the grounds of Monticello for the descendants of slave Sally Hemings, but aren't ready to let her offspring into the ...