Hope Hull’s Ella Langley is the Academy of Country Music’s New Female Artist of the Year, reports AL.com’s Mary Colurso.

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

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

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — Labor leaders, politicians and civil rights activists are mourning the death of Alexis Herman, the first ...

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

Alexis Herman, the first Blacksecretary of labor, a position in which she helped settle a crippling strike by United Parcel ...

Remembering Alexis Margaret Herman, the first Black U.S. secretary of labor, a trailblazer who broke barriers and dedicated ...

Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman has died at the age of 77.The Mobile native was the first African American to ...

Tributes are rolling in to honor the life of former U.S. Labor Secretary and Mobile native Alexis Herman. The political trailblazer passed away on Friday, she was 77. WKRG ...

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

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