If you visit Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello home ... owned Monticello Association didn’t acknowledge Thomas had any Black descendants until recently. The driver did suggest we tour the African ...

The sexual relationship between third U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, a Black woman enslaved ... was proven by DNA tests done on their descendants, two of whom appear in the ...

The Y chromosome keeps its family secrets and now, nearly two centuries later, DNA evidence has unequivocally linked a male descendant of Sally Hemings to the house of Thomas Jefferson.

Shannon LaNier, a TV news anchor, has complex feelings about being descended from Thomas Jefferson ... authored the book Jefferson’s Children: The Story of One American Family.