Opal Lee, known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” was hospitalized last month while visiting Ohio to mark the 30th ...

Opal Lee, a longtime Fort Worth civil rights leader known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” was hospitalized late last ...

There is great news for the Fort Worth grandmother who became the voice for a federal Juneteenth holiday. Opal Lee is out of ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Opal Lee, considered the "Grandmother of Juneteenth," was recently hospitalized, but her family says she ...

Opal Lee, known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” is currently in the hospital but is reportedly doing well and in good ...

Opal Lee is known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth” for her decades-long campaign to make the day a federal holiday ...

Opal Lee walked from Texas to D.C. to bring attention to Juneteenth. When President Joe Biden signed a bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United ...

This is where Opal Lee’s childhood home once burned. Her parents had worked hard to purchase the land and the house upon it. They had moved here from Marshall, in East Texas, her father hoping ...

New house is on same Texas lot where family home was burned by white rioters. It was June 19, 1939, when Opal Lee remembers her parents sending her to a friend’s house several blocks away when ...

The home was given to Opal Lee just days before Juneteenth which she pushed to have recognized as a national holiday. Ninety-seven-year-old Opal Lee, the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” received ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Opal Lee, the 97-year-old Texan known for her push to make Juneteenth a national holiday, was given the keys Friday to her new home, which was built on the same tree ...

Opal Lee, the "Grandmother of Juneteenth," is recovering after she was hospitalized last week in Cincinnati, Ohio, according ...