President Trump's actions will result in "disastrous and disparate impact on African Americans," warned NAACP President ...

A social worker, she became a Democratic Party insider and joined President Bill Clinton’s cabinet during his second term.

The first practicing Catholic first lady since Jackie Kennedy, known to express her mood through fashion statements, wore a ...

Labor leaders, politicians and civil rights activists are mourning the death of Alexis Herman, the first Black U.S.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump paid their respects to the late Pope Francis at his funeral at Vatican ...

Alexis M. Herman, who served as labor secretary from 1997 to 2001 under former President Bill Clinton, died Friday. She was ...

In his response, Trump said HBCUs shouldn’t be concerned “at all” before dubiously claiming he “saved” historically Black ...

Civil rights groups, labor organizations and politicians praised Alexis Herman as a "trailblazer" who fought for the rights ...

In the first 100 days of his second term, President Trump has caused significant damage to the civil rights of Black America.

Herman was only three months into running the Labor Department when 185,000 unionized UPS workers went on strike in early August 1997, hobbling package deliveries nationwide.

Quinta Brunson is about to join a rare group that only includes Queen Latifah and Maya Rudolph. On May 3, the two-time Emmy ...