The House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to award a Congressional Gold Medal to tennis legend and equal rights advocate Billie ...
In a career filled with accolades, Billie Jean King is the first individual woman athlete to earn a Congressional Gold Medal.
The hidden figures of the space race were recognized with Congress’ highest honor at a medal ceremony on Wednesday.
Billie Jean King held the No. 1 ranking in women's tennis for years, and now she'll be No. 1 again, this time as the first ...
United States House of Representatives members Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey announced ...
King, who was a major advocate for the passage of Title IX in the 1970s, will be the first solo female athlete to receive the award. The measure still needs to be signed by President Joe Biden in ...
Three years after the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan, 13 U.S. service members killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul in 2021 ...
Billie Jean King will become the first individual female athlete to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. Reps.
Russell Henderson, one of two men convicted of the heinous hate crime, tried to have his double life sentence shortened.
Congressional leaders on Tuesday posthumously gave their highest honor to the 13 U.S. service members killed during the ...
The honor is meant to recognize her “lifetime of work fighting for Title IX, and women’s and LGBTQ+ equality on and off the ...
On Tuesday evening, U.S. Representatives Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania announced their bipartisan legislation had successfully passed through the House of ...