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

President Donald Trump’s crusade against diversity has attacked nearly everything touching on race, from freezing federal investigations of civil rights violations to scrubbing Harriet Tubman from a ...

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 ...

A curated list of the best new movies streaming in April, from Nicole Kidman's "Babygirl" to Viola Davis' "G20." ...

Coffin of Pope Francis sealed after 250,000 pay homage to head of Catholic Church - Pope Francis’s coffin was sealed after a ...

Elon Musk says he will step back from his controversial White House role as the unofficial head of the cost-cutting ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday announced former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas as his special envoy to the United States, in an effort to try to ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National Museum of African American History and Culture a few ...

FIRST ON FOX: The U.S. and South African groups have started to take action to "improve" the lives of Afrikaners, descendants of white, mostly Dutch settlers, after President Donald Trump said ...

American president George W Bush today declared "I feel great" after fainting when he choked on a pretzel. The president blacked out and hit his head as he watched an American football match in ...