Tag Archives: ‘Embracing culture’: Dallas-Fort Worth celebrates Juneteenth

The road to becoming the “grandmother of Juneteenth” took then-89-year-old Opal Lee from Fort Worth to Washington, D.C., a 1,400-mile call on lawmakers to recognize a day she had honored her entire life, one that her family and Black Americans like them had honored for generations. The trek was a series of 2.5-mile marches in recognition of the enslaved Black …

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