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 ...

But in off-Broadway's "Sally & Tom" by Suzan-Lori Parks, we see Thomas Jefferson as a slaveholder. The show, through May 26 at The Public Theater, is not always easy to watch, and often perplexing.

The Y chromosome keeps its family secrets and now, nearly two centuries later, DNA evidence has unequivocally linked a male descendant of Sally Hemings to the house of Thomas Jefferson.

Separate but nowhere near equal. In theory, since the family has now acknowledged that Sally Hemings bore several of Thomas ...

Dr. Eugene A. Foster, a pathologist who used DNA testing to show Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one child with slave Sally Hemings, has died in Virginia. NYC toddler survives 3-story plunge ...

York and James Beckwourth charted the American frontier between the 16th and 19th centuries Amanda Bellows In "Sally & Tom," Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks continues her investigation of ...

Thomas Jefferson, John Adams ... exposing Jefferson’s relationship with his slave, Sally Hemings. While the Hemings revelations were indeed accurate and turned out to be facts, Callender ...