Sports icon and equality rights advocate Billie Jean King was named the grand marshal of the 2025 Tournament of Roses, it was announced Monday. With 39 Grand Slam tennis titles and 20 career ...

Former tennis champion and gender equality advocate Billie Jean King was named grand marshal of the 2025 Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena on Monday. “I had a unique opportunity.

In a year in which the New York City Pride Parade will reverse course, a mainstay of the women's, gay and human rights movements will be among its grand marshals. Indeed, Billie Jean King will ...

Billie Jean King won a dozen Grand Slam singles titles ... It was for King's crusading that Life magazine in 1990 named her one of the "100 Most Important Americans of the 20th Century." ...

King earned 39 Grand Slam ... businessman named Bob Mitchell offered to pay her expenses for several months of practice Down Under. Usually in the autumn, Billie Jean minimized tennis and focused ...