“Thomas Jefferson would not have claimed him if he was alive today,” someone else tweeted. Some brought up the controversy about whether or not the Hemings children are actually descended from ...

Thomas Jefferson served as the U.S. minister to France between 1784 to 1789. In 1787, he was joined in Paris by his youngest daughter, Maria, and Sally Hemings, an enslaved teenager on his ...

MIDLAND, MI — For Tawny Ryan Nelb, the story began with a photograph. The professional archivist was researching the records of Midland-based St. John’s Episcopal Church in 2018 when she ...

Four years after Smithsonian Magazine published photos of Shannon LaNier, a Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson, dressed like his ancestor, many have mixed feelings about […] ‘Who Blackened ...