Provided by People Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Clifford Leopold Alexander Jr., the first African American named Secretary of the United States Army, died this weekend at 88.

The nation's first Black secretary of the Army passed away this month at the age of 88. His daughter Elizabeth Alexander, poet and president of the Mellon Foundation, stops by the Sunday Show to ...

Her father is Clifford Alexander, secretary of the Army in the Carter administration, and her mother teaches history at George Washington University. Her brother is an adviser to Obama's ...

From 1978 to 1981, Janet Hill was special assistant and White House liaison to Clifford Alexander, then the secretary of the Army and the first Black person to hold that Cabinet-level position.

Grant Hill's mother Janet Hill has passed away following a battle with brain cancer, their family announced in a statement on ...

Clifford Alexander, Secretary of the United States Army under President Carter and chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under President Johnson, talks with Rachel Maddow ...

The phrase “black lives matter†has become a rallying cry for a new chapter in the long black freedom struggle. But this new movement’s penchant ...

The first Black secretary of the Army, Clifford Alexander Jr., died on Sunday at the age of 88. He was a pioneer, who served as an adviser to Democratic presidents and worked on landmark ...