(The Hill) – The House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to award a Congressional Gold Medal to tennis legend and equal rights advocate Billie Jean King, bestowing the nation’s highest civilian ...

Listeners will hear from Billie Jean King as she explains her decision with eight other women to demand equality for female tennis players Lindsay Kimble is the Executive Editor, News at PEOPLE.

Her work has previously appeared in CBS Essentials and The Daily Northwestern. When Billie Jean King beat men’s tennis star Bobby Riggs in a match called “the Battle of the Sexes" 50 years ago ...

Billie Jean King won six Wimbledon singles championships and four U.S. Open titles. She was ranked No. 1 in the world five years. She defeated such magnificent players as Martina Navratilova ...

Billie Jean King – queen of the ’60s and ’70s tennis courts and winner of 39 Grand Slams – is one of the most successful players of all time. She has also entered the halls of fame as an ...