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Alexis Herman, First Black Secretary of Labor, Is Dead at 77
A social worker, she became a Democratic Party insider and joined President Bill Clinton’s cabinet during his second term.
Watch the unreleased 1993 footage of Presidents Nixon and Clinton meeting, a video made public for first time
The roughly 2-minute video, uploaded recently to the Richard Nixon Foundation‘s YouTube channel, shows Nixon and Clinton meeting at the president’s residence on March 8, 1993. The footage was ...
Alabama native and first Black US Secretary of Labor dead at 77: ‘True hometown hero’
Alexis Herman, a native of Mobile, served as the labor secretary in President Bill Clinton’s administration in 1997 until ...
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Alexis Herman, the first Black secretary of labor in U.S. history, dies at age 77
Alexis Herman was tapped by former President Bill Clinton to serve as secretary of labor. Upon her confirmation in 1997, she ...
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Former President Bill Clinton returns to Oklahoma City 30 years after the bombing that killed 168 people
Thirty years after the deadliest homegrown attack in U.S. history, former President Bill Clinton returned ... tomorrows as it takes,'" Clinton said, recalling his first visit to Oklahoma City ...
Alexis Herman, first Black Labor Secretary, dies at 77
Former Labor Secretary Alexis Herman died on Friday at the age of 77. Herman made history as the first Black person to hold ...