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 ...

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 ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — The family of 98-year-old Opal Lee, widely known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” is sharing ...

Opal Lee, the Grandmother of Juneteenth, reacts while listening during a ceremony to celebrate Lee’s homecoming to her rebuilt childhood home in Fort Worth on Friday. On June 19, 1939 ...

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 ...

FORT WORTH – After 85 years, the "Grandmother of Juneteenth" is moving back home. The home that Opal Lee lived in as a child was burned down on June 19, 1939, when hundreds of white rioters ...

Jan. 15, 1986: Opal Lee, right, and Brenda Polk carry a painted banner of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. during a memorial march along East Rosedale Street in Fort Worth Paul Moseley ...

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 ...

The “grandmother of Juneteenth," is bringing a play to a Fort ... Worth stage on Sunday highlighting Fannie Lou Hamer's legacy and fight against voter suppression. The endeavor is so important ...

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