The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted in 1979 by the United ...

Four days after his assassination, U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, introduced a bill in the Congress to recognize King’s birthday as a national holiday. Conyers, a former labor attorney ...

Conyers, who died in 2019, did not live to see his proposal signed into law. Nor did U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas., who shepherded the bill through the last session of Congress.

John Conyers in 1989. Repeatedly introduced since then, the bill moved out of committee for the first time in April. As its new lead sponsor in the House, Pressley takes over from former Rep.