Marin Theatre Executive Artistic Director Lance Gardner is adamant that Suzan-Lori Parks' "Sally & Tom" is not a response to ...

In 1795 Thomas Jefferson was in the middle of a four-year vacation from public office. Having stepped down as secretary of state at the end of George Washington’s first term, and not yet elected as ...

Lori Parks' 'Sally & Tom' at Marin Theatre, where he serves as Executive Artistic Director. It runs through Sunday, November ...

In his review of “Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh” by Thomas Kidd, Barton Swaim says a 1998 revelation showed that Jefferson “sired several children by an enslaved servant” ...

Did Tom Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States father children by one of his black slaves, Sally Hemings? Contrary to what you may have read or ...

He expanded the educational mission of Thomas Jefferson’s plantation. He also embraced research that showed Jefferson had fathered the children of one of his slaves. By Richard Sandomir Six ...

Marin Theatre in Mill Valley will present the West Coast Premiere of Sally & Tom by Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks, ...

OPINION: "Removing a Thomas Jefferson statue is just a performative action to circumvent having informed discussions on race in America," writes William L. McIlwain, IV. Pulitzer Hall is the home of ...

It is now widely understood that my ancestor Sally Hemings, an enslaved black woman, was the intimate companion of Thomas Jefferson for nearly four decades. Monticello, the Virginia plantation ...

Eugene Foster, the retired pathologist who orchestrated the DNA testing that showed Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one of the children of slave Sally Hemings, died Monday at the University of ...

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 ...