AUSTIN, Texas (AP)— Opal Lee, the 96-year-old Texan whose efforts helped makeJuneteentha federal holiday to commemorate the end of slavery in the U.S., became on Wednesday only the second Black person whose portrait will hang in the senate chamber of the state Capitol. Lawmakers gave a...
Affordable housing complex named after Opal Lee coming to Fort Worth The Opal, named after the Grandmother of Juneteenth, opens in North Fort Worth on Thursday.
North Texas Congressman Marc Veasey and 33 other members of Congress sent a letter to the Nobel Prize Nomination Committee to nominate Mrs. Opal Lee for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. Lee is a native Texan who worked more than 40 years to commemorate Juneteenth as a national holiday an...
As we continue to mark Juneteenth, we hear from “the grandmother of Juneteenth,” Opal Lee. The 97-year-old retired Texas teacher led the movement to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. She led the annual Juneteenth walk in Dallas on Wednesday.