only one other African-American woman had been able to stand behind the White House press lectern: Judy Smith, deputy press secretary for then-Republican President George H.W. Bush (1989-1993).

The talented leader served on Al Gore's transition team and later played key roles in John Kerry's and Barack Obama's ...

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

or politicized,’’ the National Council of Negro Women said in a statement. “Anything under the sun is susceptible," said ...

Mobile native and former United States Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman has died. She was 77. Herman was the first African ...

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The “A Changing America: 1968 and Beyond” gallery at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History ... This sale of an enslaved woman and her son took place in ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National African American ... of Negro Women said in a statement.