The aroma of smoked turkey legs floated through the air as hundreds gathered along Evans Avenue in Fort Worth to celebrate ...

The 97-year-old was handed the keys to her newly constructed house last week, built on the very land where her family’s home in Fort Worth, Texas, was burned down by a racist mob over 80 years ago.

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 ...

Fort Worth celebrated Juneteenth with Opal Lee’s annual Walk for Freedom, a symbolic 2.5-mile event representing the delay in ...

Roderick Miles Jr., the Tarrant County Commissioner of Precinct 1, hugs Dione Sims, the granddaughter of Opal Lee, following ...

What happens to a holiday when its most beloved champion cannot join the celebration? On Thursday, hundreds still showed up ...

Opal Lee's Walk for Freedom wrapped up in Fort Worth Thursday morning, but it was missing the person who started it all.

Opal Lee, the 98-year-old "grandmother of Juneteenth," has returned to Fort Worth after being hospitalized in Ohio. She's currently resting and not doing interviews, though she did take a call ...

A 71-year-old Fort Lee man accused of abusing a child for several years was arrested on Thursday. Authorities say Teaneck officers provided a tip about Manuel Barrantes to the Bergen County ...

Lee Health is expanding its new Fort Myers hospital plans at a cost of $151 million, bringing the total estimated cost to $820 million. The expansion will add a new patient tower with 92 beds, ...

Opal Lee at her Fort Worth home, in front of a painting of her family tree. Photograph by Shayan Asgharnia Lee studied education at Wiley, in part because it was the quickest way for her to ...