Since the Fort Worth, Texas, event launched in 2016, Lee has never missed one. However, while traveling to receive the International Freedom Conductor Award at the National Underground Railroad ...

When talking about Black liberation, celebration, and history, you must mention Opal Lee, affectionately known as the ...

Opal Lee was awarded the Medal of Freedom, recognizing her pivotal role in establishing Juneteenth as a federal holiday in ...

The Walk for Freedom is held on Juneteenth to mark the two-and-a-half-year delay between the Emancipation Proclamation and ...

The day became a federal holiday June 17, 2021, with Lee in attendance as President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth bill into ...

In honor of Juneteenth, Decider is resurfacing an article that was originally published in June of 2021 with Ms. Opal Lee, a ...

Opal Lee, the 98-year-old "Grandmother of Juneteenth," will not physically lead this year's Walk for Freedom in Fort Worth ...

Opal Lee walked from Texas to D.C. to bring attention to Juneteenth. Opal Lee has been described as the "grandmother of the movement" to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. In 2016, at 89 years old ...

Opal Lee, "The Grandmother of Juneteenth," will not participate in this year's Walk for Freedom after her recent ...

Thursday will mark 160 years since Union forces landed in Galveston with news that enslaved Texans had been emancipated more ...

Opal Lee, the "Grandmother of Juneteenth," will not lead this year's Walk for Freedom in Fort Worth, her granddaughter said.

The day now known as Juneteenth was formally recognized as a national holiday in 2021, due in large part to the activism of ...