but rumors have persisted to this day that President and founding father Thomas Jefferson had an illicit relationship with his slave mistress, Sally Hemings, that bore him children. Jefferson ...

The holiday will replace an annual birthday celebration of US Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, a slave-owner. The city voted last year to scrap the April Jefferson holiday. The third US president ...

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character: the Virginia aristocrat known as the "man of the people"; the president who simplified the office yet never denied himself a luxury; the slave owner ...

Why it matters: It's part of a new art exhibit reframing the story of Thomas Jefferson ... and relatives of other slaves held in bondage at Monticello, Jefferson's sprawling plantation in Virginia.

The list said ... of the pro-slavery Confederacy in the US Civil War of 1861-65. One person was killed when a car rammed a crowd of people who were against the August rally. Thomas Jefferson ...