Eight years ago, the play "Thomas and Sally" sparked peaceful in-person protests, an open letter co-signed by almost 1,800 people and a police confrontation, blighting the reputation of Marin Theatre.

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 & Tom” contains a play with the play. It is unimaginatively titled “The Pursuit of Happiness,” and that giveaway tells us that we’re not supposed to see it as a very good play. Performed by a ...

In Suzan-Lori Parks’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Topdog/Underdog,” which had an explosive revival on Broadway two years ago, the sole characters are named Lincoln and Booth. In her new play, “Sally & Tom ...

As the country slowly, surely comes to grips with its slaveholding past, one of its most iconic buildings is set to do the same. Suggested Reading Everything We Know About The Sherrone Moore Scandal ...

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 ...

Few arenas have become as politicized in recent years as local school boards. Debates prompted by mask mandates, Black Lives Matter protests and LGBTQ education, among other issues, have brought ...