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

Gray represented prominent civil rights leaders like King, Rosa Parks and John Lewis throughout the Civil Rights Movement in ...

Mobile native and former United States Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman has died. She was 77. Herman was the first African American to serve as the U.S. Labor Secretary. She ...

In 1970, he became one of Alabama's first Black state legislators ... His work eventually led to an official apology from President Bill Clinton on the government’s behalf in 1997.