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

Celebrations are being held around the country to commemorate the Juneteenth holiday marking the day in 1865 when Union ...

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

Fort Worth celebrated Juneteenth with Opal Lee’s annual Walk for Freedom, a symbolic 2.5-mile event representing the delay in ...

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

What happens to a holiday when its most beloved champion cannot join the celebration? On Thursday, hundreds still showed up ...

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

A new affordable housing community in Fort Worth is named after the grandmother of Juneteenth, Opal Lee. Lee, 98, joined community leaders at Thursday's grand opening of The Opal, a mixed-income ...

“I dream there will be more Opals across the city,” said Lee, who hopes Fort Worth and other cities will continue to address the need of housing for all people. Opal Lee reacts to seeing ...

Marshall native, national gem and Fort Worth treasure Opal Lee is affectionately revered as “The Grandmother of Juneteenth.” She helped make June 19 a federal holiday and has worked for change.

Opal Lee is known as the Grandmother of Juneteenth for her efforts in getting the date recognized as a national holiday. FORT WORTH, Texas -- It was June 19, 1939, when Opal Lee remembers her ...