Fort Worth City Councilwoman Mia Hall of District 6 speaks to the crowd gathered following the Opal Lee Walk for Freedom at Farrington Field in Fort Worth on Thursday, June 19, 2025.

Opal Lee, the 98-year-old "grandmother of Juneteenth," has returned to Fort Worth after being hospitalized in Ohio. She's currently resting and not doing interviews, though she did take a call ...

Lee has worked towards this moment her entire life. Five years ago, she walked from Fort Worth to Washington, D.C. to urge lawmakers to make this happen. Opal Lee (CBS 11) ...

DALLAS — Opal Lee, known as the "Grandmother of Juneteenth," will not be walking in her annual Walk for Freedom event in Fort Worth. Dione Sims, Lee's granddaughter, confirmed Thursday that Lee ...

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] ...

In one of her most recent projects, Lee is a founding member of a coalition called Transform 1012 N. Main Street, which is working to turn that Fort Worth building — a former KKK auditorium ...

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 to ...

Opal Lee visited the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History last month to see a new display case created in her honor. The "Grandmother of Juneteenth," Lee marched for years in Fort Worth and ...

More than 80 years have passed since a racist mob destroyed Opal Lee’s family home in Fort Worth, Texas, but the 97-year-old said she still remembers the White crowd that forced her family out ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — When Opal Lee was 12, a racist mob drove her family out of their Texas home. Now, the 97-year-old community activist is getting closer to moving into a brand new home on ...

Fort Worth Opera partnered with Unity Unlimited, producer of Opal Lee’s Annual Juneteenth Celebration and 2.5-mile walk, for a concert in front of Bass Performance Hall and the lawn of the ...

GALVESTON, Texas — No one was happier to hear that Congress voted to make Juneteenth a federal holiday than 94-year-old Opal Lee of Fort Worth. “Woo hoo! I’ve got so many different feelings ...