For the descendant community, it gets a little old: “Sally Hemings. Sally Hemings.” Other slave descendants have richer stories. But she is the biggest draw because she is synonymous with ...

"That graveyard is for Jefferson descendants and they're Jefferson ... this country would not exist without slaves and Sally Hemings was one of the founding mothers of this country.

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 ...

It was only in recent history, and in large part because of DNA testing, that descendants of Jefferson and Hemings were formally and officially recognized. An exhibit about Sally Hemings opened at ...

In providing Sally Hemings with her rightful place in history, we give her and her descendants back their sense of humanity. Ultimately, however, the Monticello exhibit is a reminder of both the ...

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 ...

Thomas Jefferson's biography got significantly more complicated when DNA evidence linked him to the descendants of Sally Hemings, a slave on his... 'Monticello' Tells Untold Story Of Sally Hemings ...

which features a play-within-a-play about Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. A group of descendants of Monticello's enslaved families and historian Annette Gordon-Reed attended the show and ...

Washington, Sally Hemings, Ida B. Wells, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks and Emmett Till. They were greeted and addressed by Vice President Kamala Harris, who praised the descendants of “extraordinary ...