More than five decades after tennis star Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in what was known as the “Battle of the Sexes, ...

United States House of Representatives members Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey announced ...

Billie Jean King has accomplished many firsts in her life, and you can add the first individual female athlete to be awarded ...

King had already been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. Fitzpatrick, a Republican, says she has “broken ...

Billie Jean King will become the first individual women's athlete to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. Reps. Brian ...

Suffs stars Tony Award-winning book writer, composer, and lyricist Shaina Taub in the role of Alice Paul, making her only the ...

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 ...

Billie Jean King will make history as the first female athlete to be awarded a Congressional Gold Medal after the House ...

The honor is meant to recognize her “lifetime of work fighting for Title IX, and women’s and LGBTQ+ equality on and off the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Billie Jean King will become the first individual female athlete to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal ...

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 ...

Tennis Hall of Famer Billie Jean King is known for breaking barriers. Now she’s slated to break another one as the likely ...