Opal Lee, known to many as "The Grandmother of Juneteenth," will not participate in this year’s Walk for Freedom march due to a recent hospitalization.

Opal Lee, the 97-year-old who championed Juneteenth, moved back to the Fort Worth neighborhood that her family was violently pushed out from.

Meet Opal Lee, the Juneteenth ‘grandmother of the movement’ In 2016, 89-year-old Opal Lee walked from her home in Fort Worth, Texas, to the nation’s capital in an effort to get Juneteenth ...

When Opal Lee was 12, a racist mob drove her family out of their Texas home. Now, the 97-year-old community activist is moving back.

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 ...

Opal Lee has received keys to a new house built on the site of her childhood home 85 years after her family was driven out by an angry mob.

In 1939, when Opal Lee was just 12, her family moved into a house that stood in an all-White neighborhood. They had lived at the home for just five days when a mob showed up and "tore it asunder." ...

Opal Lee sits in a rocking chair while waiting to give interviews on the porch of her new home in Fort Worth, Texas, Friday, June 14, 2024. Habitat for Humanity built Lee the home on the same lot ...

News & Politics At 98, the Grandmother of Juneteenth Still Has Work to Do “When he calls me, I don’t plan to be in no rocking chair waiting for him," Opal Lee says. "Too much to be done.” ...

Columnist Bud Kennedy has written about Fort Worth activist Opal Lee since 2015, when she talked publicly for the first time about the Juneteenth 1939 attack by a white mob that ransacked her ...

Miss Opal Lee could become the first person from Fort Worth to win the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, which is her 96th birthday. Here’s a look at her life.

Opal Lee, the 97-year-old “ grandmother of Juneteenth,” is getting a new home on the exact spot where a racist white mob trashed her family’s house more than 80 years ago. On Thursday ...