Opal Lee returns home. The 98-year-old returned home from her out-of-state hospital stay on Monday evening. Dionne Sims, ...

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 North Texas woman known as the "Grandmother of Juneteenth" was hospitalized over the weekend in Ohio. According to family members, 98-year-old Opal Lee was hospitalized this ...

Opal Lee is known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth” for her decades-long campaign to make the day a federal holiday ...

This is where Opal Lee’s childhood home once burned ... She was a good student, first in Marshall and then when her family moved to Fort Worth, where they stayed even after the mob attack.

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 ...

Opal Lee, 93, stands in front of the East Annie Street lot on June 2, 2021, where white rioters attacked, invaded and burned her family's home in 1939. Amanda McCoy/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/TNS ...

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 ...

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