President Joe Biden is set to award a Texas woman known by many as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth” with the highest civilian ...

"Grandmother of Juneteenth" Opal Lee was one of 19 recipients this year of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest ...

FORT WORTH — Opal Lee has long made headlines in North Texas, and throughout the country. This time, she's being recognized with the nation's highest civilian honor — the Presidential Medal of Freedom ...

Juneteenth icon Opal Lee, of Fort Worth, is receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House announced Friday. Lee was one of 19 recipients of the award that were announced. The ...

In honor of her decades-long advocacy for Juneteenth to be recognized as a federal holiday, Opal Lee will receive the ...

“Juneteenth is a day of profound, profound, weight and power to remember the original sin of slavery and the extraordinary ...

Civil rights icon Opal Lee will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Southern Methodist University.

Former NASA astronaut Ellen Ochoa and Fort Worth activist Opal Lee are among 19 individuals receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Friday.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Juneteenth icon Opal Lee, of Fort Worth, is receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House announced Friday. Lee was one of 19 recipients of the award that were ...

Lee — then 89 — traveled 1,400 miles in a symbolic walk from Fort Worth to Washington, D.C., […] The post Opal Lee, ...

A parade will precede the festival at 9 a.m. from Sonoma Boulevard and Broadway culminating at Georgia Street. Applications — with no entry fee charged — are due June 2.

FORT WORTH, Texas - The Fort Worth woman known as the grandmother of Juneteenth will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Opal Lee was selected to receive the nation’s highest civilian award, ...