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 ...

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

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.