The historical question of whether Jefferson was the father of her children has been known as the Jefferson-Hemings controversy.

* Jefferson-Hemings controversy

The Jefferson-Hemings controversy concerns the question of whether, after Jefferson became a widower, he had an intimate relationship with his mixed-race slave, Sally Hemings, resulting in his fathering her six children off record.

* Eyler Robert Coates, Sr., ed., The Jefferson-Hemings Myth, An American Travesty ( Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, 2001 )

* 1853, William Wells Brown, known as the first African-American novelist, published his Clotel ; or, The President's Daughter, a novel based on the Jefferson-Hemings story.

See the referenced website for associated photos of the Jefferson-Hemings descendants who attended the premiere.

The controversy of the last few years over whether architects or interior designers should plan the interiors of modern buildings has brought clearly into focus one important difference of opinion.

Social theory has no more right to expect results from meaningless questions, than physics has the right to expect a theological solution to the wave-particle controversy.

These incidents, typical of many others, dramatize the distressing fact that no controversy during the last several decades has caused more tension, rancor and strife among religious groups in this country than the birth-control issue.

-- After a long, hot controversy, Miller County has a new school superintendent, elected, as a policeman put it, in the `` coolest election I ever saw in this county ''.

The commission, meeting for the first time with both of its newly-appointed commissioners, Roy Webster, of Hood River, and Dr. Ennis Keizer, of North Bend, approved a year's contract for a consultant in the data processing department who has been the center of considerable controversy in the past.

Anthropologists ' involvement with the U. S. government, in particular, has caused bitter controversy within the discipline.

This has caused much controversy whether the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is actually a " Nobel Prize "

One effect of the Communion's dispersed authority has been that conflict and controversy regularly arise over the effect divergent practices and doctrines in one part of the Communion have on others.

However, this ambiguity has been the source of controversy, particularly among Latin Americans, who feel that using the term solely for the United States misappropriates it.

The latter quote has provided some controversy because it is technically speaking of wisdom.

Of all the various disagreements within the Christian Church, the Arian controversy has held the greatest force and power of theological and political conflict, with the possible exception of the Protestant Reformation.

The book was translated into English and caused controversy in the United States, and Morita later had has chapters removed from the English version and distanced himself from the book.

Whether this is a sufficient basis for anthroposophy to be considered a spiritual science has been a matter of controversy.

The anthropic principle has given rise to some confusion and controversy, partly because the phrase has been applied to several distinct ideas.

Nevertheless Thom's legacy remains strong, Krupp wrote in 1979, " Almost singlehandedly he has established the standards for archaeo-astronomical fieldwork and interpretation, and his amazing results have stirred controversy during the last three decades.

There has also been controversy about the role of pharmaceutical companies in marketing and promoting antipsychotics, including allegations of downplaying or covering up adverse effects, expanding the number of conditions or illegally promoting off-label usage ; influencing drug trials ( or their publication ) to try to show that the expensive and profitable newer atypicals were superior to the older cheaper typicals that were out of patent.

This has been a source of controversy since the show has been criticized for promoting dangerous behavior.

During the 1990s, she generated controversy by criticizing immigration, Islamization and Islam in France, and has been fined five times for " inciting racial hatred ".

His first major act was to institute the Wild Card and divisional playoff play, which has created much controversy amongst baseball fans.

Although the March 2007 issue of Foreign Policy listed BJU as one of " The World's Most Controversial Religious Sites " because of its past influence on American politics, BJU has seen little political controversy since Stephen Jones became president.

This wealth of evidence has allowed modern scholars and dancers to recreate the style, although areas of controversy still exist.

There has been considerable controversy in the United States and elsewhere about the lack of regulations in the manufacture of such jewelry — these range from human rights issues surrounding the treatment of labor, to the use of manufacturing processes in which small, but potentially harmful, amounts of toxic metals are added during production.

On the other hand, they may have been related to the adoptionist controversy which had brought Bermudo's kingdom into Charlemagne's view.

* Following controversy over possible increased mortality ( death ) related to antipsychotics in individuals with dementia, warnings have been added to packaging.

The reported expulsion of Ionan monks and clergy by Nechtan in 717 may have been related to the controversy over the dating of Easter, and the manner of tonsure, where Nechtan appears to have supported the Roman usages, but may equally have been intended to increase royal power over the church.

Some party officials have historically been subject to controversy for occasionally promoting historical revisionism, specifically related to the Second World War.

The film Mountains of the Moon ( 1990 ) ( starring Scottish actor Iain Glen as Speke ) related the story of the Burton-Speke controversy, portrayed as having been unjustifiably incited by Speke's publisher to stimulate book sales.

However, later that year a controversy arose related to the Legion's finances, and its requisitions from the local populace.

In May 2011, controversy related to Clarke's reported views on rape resurfaced after an interview on the radio station BBC 5 Live, where he discussed a proposal to shrink the sentences of criminals, including rapists, who pleaded guilty in trial.

* In May 2000, PBS Frontline had an extensive documentary program entitled Jefferson's Blood, about the issues of DNA, historical evidence related to his paternity of Hemings ' children, and the significance of the controversy and its issues in American history.

The controversy over density in the village is related to the fate of the Sonesta hotel property on the eastern side of the island.

Since this time, the Council and Mayor have refused to answer questions related to the controversy.

Much of the controversy surrounding the DPT vaccine in the 1970s and 1980s related to the question of whether the whole-cell pertussis component caused permanent brain injury in rare cases, called pertussis vaccine encephalopathy.

Much of the controversy surrounding Han unification is based on the distinction between glyphs, as defined in Unicode, and the related but distinct idea of graphemes.

Generally, however, these cases are referred to as the Judaizer controversy, rather than a legalism controversy, but the two are related.

This was typically related to the personal beliefs of those who owned the means of production, depicting information that suited their own envisioned result of the controversy.

During a presentation at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy 2000 ( CFP2000 ) conference, Duncan Campbell, Senior Research Fellow at the Electronic Privacy Information Center ( EPIC ), mentioned the _NSAKEY controversy as an example of an outstanding issue related to security and surveillance.

Some systems provide mechanisms for sharing or allocation of costs of acquiring assets ( including intangible assets ) among related parties in a manner designed to reduce tax controversy.

As three states have needs related to the river, there has been increasing controversy since the late twentieth century related to competing development among the regions and the implications for the river.

On June 20, 2012, President Barack Obama asserted executive privilege, his first, to withhold certain Department of Justice documents related to the ongoing Operation Fast and Furious controversy ahead of a United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in Contempt of Congress for refusing to produce the documents.

A second controversy related to the fact that the land had been inhabited prior to its flooding, therefore the flooding resulted in the displacement of the residents located in the Trench.

The controversy is related to the general discussion of central Mexican influence in the Maya area which was sparked by the findings of Teotihuacán-related objects in the early Maya site of Kaminaljuyú in the 1930s.

The nature of Pakistani literature soon after independence aroused controversy among writers due to its being centered heavily on the negative events related to the India-Pakistan partition.

The dramatic increase in the popularity of " freak deliveries " led to a great deal of controversy throughout the 1910s regarding the abolition of the spitball and related pitches.