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 ...

“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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Restoration projects at Monticello that showcase where slaves lived and worked in Thomas Jefferson’s 5,000 acre working plantation will unearth the room of Sally Hemings. Hemings, a slave ...

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 ...

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 Hemings was better traveled than most Americans, so we want to tell a story about her that doesn’t limit her to Jefferson’s property,” said Gary Sandling, a vice president of the Thomas ...

We children of the South — direct descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman; and of Thomas Jefferson and Martha Wayles Jefferson, his wife. We hold hands at last as brothers ...

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 GloRilla’s Parents Finally Speak Out Amid Sibling ...