Since the Fort Worth, Texas, event launched in 2016, Lee has never missed one. However, while traveling to receive the ...

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

Every year, it's important to remember the history of Juneteenth, including the women who made it happen like Opal Lee.

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, ...

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

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

The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth' chronicles the life of Lee and the history behind America’s newest federal holiday.

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

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

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

Grandmother of Juneteenth” Opal Lee, recovering from a recent hospitalization, will not participate in her annual Walk for ...

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