Habitat for Humanity helped build the activist a new home on the same site where her family's home was burned down in 1939 and she got the keys just days before this year's Juneteenth celebrations.

The day became a federal holiday June 17, 2021, with Lee in attendance as President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth bill into ...

The Walk for Freedom is held on Juneteenth to mark the two-and-a-half-year delay between the Emancipation Proclamation and ...

We revisit host Peter O’Dowd’s 2022 conversation with Opal Lee, the woman who spent decades walking and advocating for Juneteenth to be recognized as a national holiday.

Juneteenth became an official federal holiday starting in 2021 under former President Joe Biden to recognize the freedom of ...

Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021, and one woman who helped make this happen is Ms. Opal Lee. She’s a mother, a ...

Opal Lee was awarded the Medal of Freedom, recognizing her pivotal role in establishing Juneteenth as a federal holiday in ...

The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth' chronicles the life of Lee and the history behind America’s newest federal holiday.

For Ms. Opal, the hope was to ensure that a history she understood as central to her story, and to the story of our nation, ...

There are a number of events to mark Juneteenth across North Texas, including Opal Lee's famed Walk For Freedom.

Opal Lee, the 98-year-old "Grandmother of Juneteenth," will not physically lead this year's Walk for Freedom in Fort Worth ...

Juneteenth, a more recent federal holiday, is dedicated to celebrating the freedom of formerly enslaved Black people. A culmination of events take place across the country on June 19 to ...