In 2021, Juneteenth became the latest federal holiday in the US — the first to be approved since Martin Luther King Jr. Day ...

The Juneteenth holiday is set to take place this week, marking its fourth year as a federal holiday in the U.S., but the ...

Lee told ABC News she is ready to rally for Vice President Kamala Harris. Opal Lee, the woman known by many as the ...

Opal Lee attended the farewell event for the Harriet Tubman sculpture in Bastrop before it moved to Charleston.

Juneteenth National Independence Day commemorates ... The day was recognized as a federal holiday in 2021. Frederick said the decision to push forward with a community celebration this year ...

(Courtesy of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission) Juneteenth became a federal holiday three years ago, but the history of its celebration in San Francisco goes back to the 1940s. In June of 1945 ...

CHICAGO -- Opal Lee, the woman known by many as the "grandmother of the movement" to make Juneteenth a federal holiday, is attending her first-ever Democratic National Convention at the age of 97.