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 ...

Former Labor Secretary Alexis Herman died on Friday at the age of 77. Herman made history as the first Black person to hold ...

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

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

The first African American woman to serve as the United States Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman died at the age of 77 on ...

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

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

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

Alexis Herman, a native of Mobile, served as the labor secretary in President Bill Clinton’s administration in 1997 until 2001.

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.