Opal Lee, known to many as "The Grandmother of Juneteenth," will not participate in this year’s Walk for Freedom march due to a recent hospitalization.

Opal Lee sits in a rocking chair while waiting to give interviews on the porch of her new home in Fort Worth, Texas, Friday, June 14, 2024. Habitat for Humanity built Lee the home on the same lot ...

Opal Lee, left, applauds during a ceremony before aising the first wall to her new home on her family’s former lot in Fort Worth, Texas on Thursday, March 21, 2024.

A racist mob burned down Opal Lee's family home in 1939; recently, Habitat for Humanity helped build the activist a new home on the same site Dia Dipasupil/Getty This year, Juneteenth is even more ...

Dr. Opal Lee, often referred to as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” has played a pivotal role in the journey to make Juneteenth a national holiday. Her tireless activism, commitment to social ...

Opal Lee speaks with President Joe Biden after he signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law at the White House on June 17, 2021. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) ...

Opal Lee, the 97-year-old “grandmother of Juneteenth,” is getting a new home on the exact spot where a racist white mob trashed her family’s house more than 80 years ago. On Thursday morning ...

Juneteenth was even more special this year for Opal Lee, affectionately known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth.”The 97-year-old was handed the keys to her newly constructed house last week ...

Grandmother of Juneteenth Opal Lee photographed at her new Fort Worth home, January 16, 2025. Lee was named the 2021 "Texan of the Year" by The Dallas Morning News.

Dunbar Elementary teacher Opal Roland, center, later Opal Lee, was a speaker June 8, 1969, at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Living Textbook Conference at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Opal Lee, "The Grandmother of Juneteenth," will participate virtually in this year's Walk for Freedom after her recent hospitalization. To stream THV11 on your phone, you need the THV11 app.

FORT WORTH, Texas — The family of 98-year-old Opal Lee, widely known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” is sharing reassuring news after a recent health scare. “She is doing well. She is ...