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

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

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

Women of Power Honoree Alexis Herman, who was also a pioneer as the first Black U.S. Labor Secretary, dies at 76.

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

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

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

The roughly 2-minute video, uploaded recently to the Richard Nixon Foundation‘s YouTube channel, shows Nixon and Clinton ...

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.

Herman made history as the first Black person to hold the role after former President Bill Clinton nominated her to the post at the start of his second term in office. “Hillary and I are deeply ...