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

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

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

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.

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.

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