Lee was named the 2021 "Texan of the Year" by The Dallas Morning News. In 2024, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of ...

Fort Worth's Opal Lee called for unity and courage in a letter to newly sworn-in President Trump on inauguration day.

The “Grandmother of Juneteenth” urges Trump to reconsider his executive order pausing DEI observances, including Black ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump’s inauguration coincided with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and Fort Worth’s “grandmother of Juneteenth” ...

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 ...

(June 20, “Opal Lee celebrates Juneteenth holiday in Fort Worth”) It is starting to look like the real America I love and am loving even more. Thank you, President Joe Biden and Opal Lee ...

Dr. Opal Lee, known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” sat down with NBC 5 to discuss how she feels about the administration’s recent move. She led the push to make Juneteenth a federal ...

Opal Lee, who’s known as the grandmother of Juneteenth, sits on her new porch for a celebration to commemorate the opening of her new house at Historic Southside in Fort Worth on Friday ...

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 ...