The Austin regional premiere of Suzan-Lori Parks' play-within-a-play, Sally & Tom, opens this week at Zach Theatre. The ...

It is now widely understood that my ancestor Sally Hemings, an enslaved black woman, was the intimate companion of Thomas Jefferson for nearly four decades. Monticello, the Virginia plantation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hemings was enslaved by the third president of the United States who bared six of his children. Time has established the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Actors Adam KuveNiemann, left, and Emily Newsome rehearse for their upcoming play "Sally & Tom" at Marin Theatre in Mill Valley, ...

Monticello has always been filled with the rich history of its most famous resident, Thomas Jefferson, whose story has been told and retold through the years. But the plantation — nestled in mountains ...

Sally Hemings, the enslaved mistress of founding father Thomas Jefferson, has finally been granted her own tribute at Monticello, the sprawling Virginia estate of the late president. The controversial ...

The news of slave owners raping or carrying on full—not entirely consensual relationships with their slaves is not exactly a surprise to Black folk. But it’s a history many Americans conveniently ...

This room, part of the South Dependency of Monticello, is going to be restored as the residence of Sally Hemings. (Norm Shafer/For The Washington Post) Having spent the past five years immersed in ...

Archaeologists at Thomas Jefferson's Virginia plantation, Monticello, are unearthing the room where Sally Hemings is believed to have lived, allowing for a new way to tell the story of the enslaved ...

I emigrated from the Soviet Union decades ago, and recently toured Thomas Jefferson’s home with my American-born history-buff son. By Gary Shteyngart and Demetrius Freeman He expanded the educational ...