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, ...

FILE - In this May 11, 2016, file photo, a replica of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello stands in Somers, Conn. Friendly's ice cream co-founder S. Prestley Blake built the home in 2014. Blake, who ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Suzan-Lori Parks’s play is the latest work by a Black writer seeking to prioritize Hemings’s life and perspective to make her fully ...

“Sally: A Solo Play” follows Hemings, a woman who was enslaved under former President Thomas Jefferson and is widely recognized as the mother of several of the founding father’s children, in the days ...

That question pops up multiple times in multiple ways -- and is answered, both in the positive and the negative -- in Suzan-Lori Parks' sprawling "Sally & Tom" onstage at Marin Theatre. But it's only ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “What if” is the seed of almost every story. In the case of Suzan-Lori Parks’ “Sally & Tom,” the question is: What if a low-budget theater company were to ...

Few American historical relationships are more controversial than that of third United States President Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings, who bore several of his children. In the Bay Area, ...

Archaeologists have excavated an area of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello mansion that is believed to have been the living quarters of Sally Hemings, the enslaved woman who historians believe gave birth ...

All Men Are Created Equal. Or so Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence. It’s kind of weird then, to know that Jefferson owned slaves. And it’s even weirder to realize that one of ...