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

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

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer warned all 50 states Friday about illegal immigrants collecting taxpayer-funded unemployment benefits.

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

Ms. Herman’s ascent in Washington began as head of the Labor Department women’s bureau in the Carter administration in the ...

The first Black leader of the U.S. Department of Labor, former Secretary Alexis Herman ... the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. "She was a powerful yet graceful leader, a visionary ...

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

Alexis Herman, who as a child in Alabama watched Ku Klux Klan members assault her father and who rose to become the nation’s first Black labor secretary ... in the United States, Laurent Yene ...

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