For many years, there’s been a cherished Washington lie about Strom Thurmond. The lie is that Thurmond, though once a leading segregationist, later renounced that view as morally wrong.

The New York Daily News traced Sharpton's genealogy and it found out that Rev. Sharpton is descended from a slave owned by Strom Thurmond's relatives. Rev. SHARPTON: I couldn't describe the ...

The genealogy study was produced by researchers ... was a slave owned by Strom Thurmond's distant cousin. Coleman Sharpton was given as a gift to Julia Thurmond, whose grandfather was the late ...

Strom Thurmond, died Monday, her family’s spokesman said. She was 87. Washington-Williams kept her father’s identity secret until six months after Thurmond, a segregationist leader for decades ...

So I have only a general memory of being sent that July to cover the funeral in Columbia, S.C., of Strom Thurmond ... the Senate care deeply about the genealogy of office space; the place is ...

It included the fact that 10 years before she died, Essie Mae revealed that she was the daughter of Senator Strom Thurmond. He was a conservative political powerhouse who spent much of his career ...

Rand Paul (R-Ky.) indirectly said it was nature's call that forced him to stop talking: "I would try to go another 12 hours and try to break Strom Thurmond's record, but there are some limits to ...

Strom Thurmond — a man he'd met only once in an encounter he called "awkward." The civil rights leader learned of his connection to Thurmond, once a symbol of segregation, last week through The ...

Brent Staples, in Editorial Observer column, notes that Essie Mae Washington-Williams, illegitimate biracial daughter of late Sen Strom Thurmond ... joining to explore genealogy and heritage ...

Retired Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a one-time Democratic segregationist who helped fuel the rise of the modern conservative Republican Party in the South, died Thursday. He was 100 and ...