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 ...

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.

John Conyers (D-Mich.) and later championed by the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), who passed away last year, NBC News reported. The bill, named after the unfulfilled promise of "40 acres ...

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

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.