When American Robert Prevost became Pope, naming himself Leo XIV, a firestorm of controversy was set off because of his Black ...

Holly Jackson - We are talking about their book Sleeping with the Ancestors How I Followed ... at Monticello talking to the descendants of Sally Hemings and some of them in that group of ...

Staff genealogists helped her search for archival information about her ancestors, but the trail quickly went cold ... her family's oral history to the one famously passed down by Sally Hemings' ...

Hemings daughter Sally traveled with Thomas Jefferson ... It took all of our ancestors to make us who we are today." Greg Knight was also happy to see the history of his great-great-great ...

One of Westerinen’s ancestors was Eston Hemings, the youngest of Sally Hemings’ children. Brady-Atkins, too, was related to Eston Hemings. It was about that time that the relationship between ...

Some of her ancestors also came from Cyprus in the ... "After the revelations came out — the DNA test that linked Jefferson to Sally Hemings and her offspring — the descendants of Jefferson ...

Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the descendants of influential civil rights leaders in the same room for the first time. At the White House on Feb. 13, Vice President Kamala Harris ...

Wells, Dred Scott, Homer Adolph Plessy, Sally Hemings, Oliver Leon Brown ... work to preserve and protect the legacies of their ancestors.” She added, “At a time when our fundamental freedoms ...

spent years researching a bit of family lore that he might have been related to former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings. Best and his wife attended a Hemings family ...