Sam Neill and Carmen Ejogo played Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, in a four-hour television mini-series broadcast in 2000. The reality may be less scandalous than the show.

As for the white descendants of Jefferson, they were not happy with the Sally Hemings descendants crashing their reunion. They were especially unhappy with me because I invited the Hemmings.

If you know the name Angelica Schuyler, you just might be a fan of “Hamilton,” where she stole the show by belting out ...

It’s a contradiction that courses through White’s bloodstream and inhabits her DNA as a descendant of both Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, the enslaved Black woman with whom he had at ...

This weekend, in the same Rotunda where he once rang the bell at UVa, audiences will sit down to hear the world premiere of a new musical setting of a ...

Downtown Madison’s streets turn into storytelling stages this summer, thanks to the Wisconsin Historical Society’s newly ...

A cemetery containing the remains of two descendants of Mary Hemings, Sally Hemings' sister, lies in the right-of-way of the proposed Western Bypass of U.S. 29, just west of Albemarle High School ...

While a genetic link with Jefferson's family has been shown in only one of Sally Hemings' sons, Eston, many of the other families assert they are related, too. Mary Jefferson, ...

Sally Hemings (1773-1835), was a slave at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, pictured, and was the third president’s mistress, according to a DNA analysis in 1998. Hemings was the daughter of ...

Sally Shave Wait Glenville - Sally Shave Wait, also known as Sally Dean, passed away May 30, 2025, at home after a battle with cancer. Born May 17, 1949, in Niskayuna, NY, she was the daughter of ...

In the darkened sitting room of her 18-room Georgetown house, Sally Quinn—journalist, famed Washington hostess, and widow of longtime Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee—recently read a poem aloud. It ...