In May the descendants of Thomas Jefferson's daughters (Martha and Maria) voted by a margin of 93 percent to deny admission to the descendants of Sally Hemings, the slave woman who was alleged to have ...

Hemings, a mixed woman enslaved by Jefferson on his Virginia plantation, Monticello, was born in 1773 in Charles City County, Virginia. She is believed to have given birth to at least six of his ...

his brother Peter Hemings, who became head chef Monticello. But when Jefferson went to Washington, the president called for enslaved teenage girls to come learn French cookery under George ...

The fact that Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings was denied by Jefferson's family for almost two centuries–until DNA evidence confirmed it. A descendent of Sally Hemings learns the ...

It would do him even more good to read it every now and then, because he might just find that Thomas Jefferson’s masterwork — which is, after all, a ringing bill of particulars against King ...

A man has been taken to hospital after he was attacked and stabbed in the face in Eston. An investigation is ongoing into the incident which happened at 9.45am on Friday, near to the Eston ...

A 'well-loved' North East pub has unveiled plans for a significant renovation. The Sandstone Nab in Eston, Middlesbrough, closed on Monday March 10 and reopen on April 3 with a 'brand-new look'.

Emma Heming and Bruce Willis' daughters are growing up so fast amid their father's battle with frontotemporal dementia, proving just how strong they are in the face of adversity. Mabel and ...

So James Hemings, like Hercules, was, uh, a remarkable chef. Uh, he could speak French better than Jefferson, he was literate, he could read and write, um, and he, and he was a slave and it was ...

The founding father Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner who reportedly had a relationship with his slave Sarah Hemings, who most historians now agree bore him six children. In his last years ...

Any deal Chase signs should make him the NFL's highest-paid wide receiver. Justin Jefferson is the existing standard. The Minnesota Vikings signed Jefferson to a four-year, $140 million extension ...