Opal Lee's Walk for Freedom wrapped up in Fort Worth Thursday morning, but it was missing the person who started it all.

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

Roderick Miles Jr., the Tarrant County Commissioner of Precinct 1, hugs Dione Sims, the granddaughter of Opal Lee, following ...

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

The walk is a symbolic gesture recognizing the 2 1/2 years it took for news of freedom to reach enslaved people in Texas ...

Opal Lee, 98, (center) will not attend this year’s Walk of Freedom, recognizing the Juneteenth holiday, due to health ...

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

Opal Lee, known to many as "The Grandmother of Juneteenth," will not participate in this year’s Walk for Freedom march due to ...

Opal Lee, "The Grandmother of Juneteenth," will participate virtually in this year's Walk for Freedom after her recent ...

Opal Lee 's Walk for Freedom may soon stretch far beyond its traditional 2.5-mile route in Fort Worth. Lee's granddaughter, ...

For Ms. Opal, the hope was to ensure that a history she understood as central to her story, and to the story of our nation, ...