The National Park Service will offer free admission on Trump's birthday next year, but will eliminate the benefit for Martin ...

Celebrating faith, culture and community, residents from across North Texas gathered Nov. 16 in a Fort Worth chapel for the ...

The Frank Silvera Writers' Workshop announced a special virtual reading of Queen Opal's Walk for Freedom: The Musical on November 30, 2025, at 1 p.m. PST and 4 p.m. EST via Zoom.

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. “This book not only symbolizes the power one person has to motivate, connect and elevate the needs of others, but can also hopefully ...

She is known by many different titles. Grandmother of Juneteenth. Inspiration. Icon. But to David Ford, Opal Lee is a lifelong friend. Ford was one of hundreds of people who spent their Juneteenth ...

OAKLAND — The country was still six decades away from recognizing Juneteenth as a federal holiday when Barbara Lee first moved from El Paso, Texas, to Southern California, where she had to petition ...

While Opal Lee was sorely missed at her annual Juneteenth walk, her spirit was felt in the hundreds of people that participated in the annual Fort Worth event. Lee watched the walk from home on ...

Since its start in 2016, Opal’s Walk for Freedom has drawn a bigger crowd each year. “It used to start and march down Evans Avenue there in Fort Worth, but now it’s really grown,” Leo Ceasar Jr. said.

Opal Lee's Walk for Freedom wrapped up in Fort Worth Thursday morning, but it was missing the person who started it all. Lee's granddaughter, Dione Sims, told the crowd before the walk that Lee wouldn ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Despite not being physically there, Opal Lee's presence was felt throughout the annual Walk For Freedom celebrating Juneteenth in Fort Worth. Hundreds of people took on Lee's cause ...