The dream of having a historical society did become a realization when Roy and Opal Lee Payton retired to Wayne County and ...

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News & Politics At 98, the Grandmother of Juneteenth Still Has Work to Do “When he calls me, I don’t plan to be in no rocking chair waiting for him," Opal Lee says. "Too much to be done.” ...

EXTINCTION EVENT — So many of Andrew Cuomo’s flaws were distinctive to him: The grievance and paranoia, the imperial sense of entitlement, the brazen dishonesty about his mismanagement of the Covid ...

For social justice activist Glenn Harris, President Donald Trump’s statement on Juneteenth, arguing there are “too many nonworking holidays in America” costing the country “billions of dollars” was no ...

Habitat Greenville is the first affiliate in the country to build a home in honor of Juneteenth. Opal Lee, a civil rights leader known as the “grandmother of Juneteenth,” saw her childhood home burned ...

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 ...

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 ...

The holiday to mark the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued on June 19, 1865, as Union troops arrived in Galveston at the end of the Civil War. General Order No. 3 declared that ...

In May last year, Opal Lee was awarded the Medal of Freedom, recognizing her pivotal role in establishing Juneteenth as a federal holiday in the US.

"Our Economic Justice Town Hall was both a tribute to Dr. Opal Lee's historic contributions and a call to action," said Dr. Stacie NC Grant, International President and CEO of Zeta Phi Beta ...

Dione Sims, the granddaughter of Opal Lee, becomes emotional talking about her grandmother on stage following the Opal Lee Walk for Freedom at Farrington Field in Fort Worth on Thursday, June 19 ...