So if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love," Lee said in the letter. President Joe Biden awards the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Opal ...

Lee was named the 2021 "Texan of the Year" by The Dallas Morning News. In 2024, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden.[(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer) Opal Lee ...

Outgoing President Joe Biden made it a holiday in 2021. “As a life-long educator, I know that what we teach today shapes tomorrow,” Lee wrote in the letter to Trump. “So if people can be ...

Opal Lee, who’s known as the grandmother of Juneteenth ... Outgoing President Joe Biden made it a holiday in 2021. “As a life-long educator, I know that what we teach today shapes tomorrow ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — As Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President Monday on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Fort Worth’s Opal ... Joe Biden in 2021. Each year for the holiday, Lee has hosted ...

Opal Lee, the "Grandmother of Juneteenth," called for unity and hope in a letter to President Trump on his inauguration day, which coincided with Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

President Donald Trump’s inauguration coincided with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and Fort Worth’s “grandmother of Juneteenth” Opal Lee took advantage ... President Joe Biden made it ...

TEXAS — Dr. Opal Lee, known ask the Grandmother of Juneteenth ... former President Joe Biden signed a bill making Juneteenth the 11 th federal holiday. In 2024, Biden awarded Lee the Presidential ...

97 year old activist and recent recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Joe Biden, Dr Opal Lee, the founder of Juneteenth; Claudette McGowan, CEO of Protexxa, a global IT leader and ...