She refused to return with him otherwise. Hemings’ children experienced freedom decades after the negotiation: Sally was never legally emancipated and was unofficially freed by Jefferson’s ...

Impressed by the world that “The Stained Glass Window” lays out, Dr. Reed asked if a sequel was in the works. But Lewis ...

Impressed by the world that “The Stained Glass Window” lays out, Dr. Reed asked if a sequel was in the works. But Lewis replied with emphatic resignation, “No. I have memory problems, not yet ...

Glenn Youngkin (R) wants to remove one of his appointees on the governing board of the University of Virginia, worried that ...

As the sixth great-grandson of President Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, LaNier co-authored the 2002 award-winning book Jefferson’s Children: The Story of One American Family with photojournalist ...

See 8 great campaign slogans » Back then, presidential candidates didn't actively campaign. In fact, Adams and Jefferson spent much of the election season at their respective homes in Massachusetts ...

The fact that Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings was denied by Jefferson's family for almost two centuries–until DNA evidence confirmed it. A descendent of Sally Hemings learns the ...

At Monticello in Charlottesville, listen to a talk about the history of slavery at the estate and explore an exhibit all about Sally Hemings' life. Hemings was an enslaved woman at Monticello who ...

Thomas Jefferson enslaved hundreds of people and had six children with one of them, Sally Hemings, yet he also called the institution a "moral depravity" and ordered Congress to abolish the ...

The president laid out the extraordinary plan at a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this month, stating: 'The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will ...

Tina Andrews, the first African-American to win the Writers Guild of America Award, will have her CBS drama Sally Hemings An American Tragedy screened two days prior. SALLY HEMMINGS: The CBS drama ...