Opal Lee returns home. The 98-year-old returned home from her out-of-state hospital stay on Monday evening. Dionne Sims, ...

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

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

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

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

Opal Lee sits near a display of awards she has received while chatting with the Star-Telegram on Aug. 10, 2022, in Fort Worth. Yffy Yossifor [email protected] Where was Opal Lee born and ...

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

Eighty-five years after her childhood home was destroyed, Fort Worth activist Opal Lee is moving into a new house built on the same lot by HistoryMaker Homes. Fort Worth’s “Grandmother of ...

In 2016, she walked 1,400 miles from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C., to draw attention to the date. MORE: Meet Opal Lee, the 'grandmother of the movement' to make Juneteenth a federal ...

Opal Lee, 93, stands in front of the East Annie Street lot on June 2, 2021, where white rioters attacked, invaded and burned her family's home in 1939. Amanda McCoy/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/TNS ...

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

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 ...