COLUMBIA, S.C. – Strom Thurmond Jr. says he is ready to meet his mixed-race half sister, whose relationship to the family was kept secret by his father for nearly eight decades. "We have no ...

An attorney for the family of former U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina confirmed Monday that in 1925, when he was 22, Thurmond fathered a child with a black teenage housekeeper.

Carrie was working as a maid for the senator's family when the two entered into a relationship. She was only 16 when Essie Mae was born on Oct. 12, 1925, while Senator Strom was six years her senior.

THE SKELETON that rattled in the late South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s closet when Essie Mae Washington-Williams revealed that she’s his daughter also rattled for me. My two granddaughters ...

COLUMBIA, S.C., Dec. 19 After Essie Mae Washington-Williams told the world this week that she was Strom Thurmond's mixed-race daughter, she walked away "completely free" of a burden she had borne ...

What a way to end Black History Month! While researching the Reverend Al Sharpton's family history, it turns out that some ancestors of the civil rights leader were slaves of Strom Thurmond's ...

COLUMBIA, S.C., Dec. 19 After Essie Mae Washington-Williams told the world this week that she was Strom Thurmond's mixed-race daughter, she walked away "completely free" of a burden she had borne ...

COLUMBIA — The late Sen. Strom Thurmond's family on Monday said it "acknowledges" a California woman's claim that she is the illegitimate mixed-race daughter of the one-time segregationist.

An attorney for the family of former U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina confirmed Monday that in 1925, when he was 22, Thurmond fathered a child with a black teenage housekeeper.