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

The House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to award a Congressional Gold Medal to tennis legend and equal rights advocate Billie ...

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

Great Britain’s prospects of team success in Malaga this November have been significantly boosted by Emma Raducanu’s ...

Billie Jean King is set to become the first-ever female athlete to receive the Congressional Gold Medal after the House ...

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

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 ...

On September 20, 1973, Billie Jean King bested Bobby Riggs, in what was dubbed The Battle of the Sexes tennis match. Riggs was misogynist who claimed women were inferior and he could beat any female ...

Billie Jean King, tennis legend and pioneer of equality, received the Congressional Gold Medal, solidifying her status not ...

“Billie Jean’s impact ... Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.). King wrote on social media following Tuesday’s House vote that she is “deeply humbled and honored.” The measure now heads to President ...

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 ...

Before King started breaking barriers nationally, she started playing as a fifth grader on public tennis courts in Long Beach which now bears her name. The Billie Jean King Tennis Center in ...