This story was originally published in 2019. For our complete Black History Month coverage, click here. As the second act of the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton” begins, Thomas Jefferson has just ...
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 ...
WITH THE Monticello Association's weekend vote to bar the descendants of Sally Hemings from joining the selected ranks of Thomas Jefferson's documented kin, the formal debate over inclusion of the ...
In Act 2 of “The Reclamation of Madison Hemings,” a Charles Smith play that is a good deal more visceral than its academic title suggests, a character named Madison Hemings, played at American Blues ...