‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’ Opal Lee says efforts are being made to erase Black history

then-President Joe Biden signed a bill in 2021 making Juneteenth a federal holiday, it became the first federal holiday established in the United States since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was signed into law in 1983.

In 2026, Lee, now 99 and recovering from an illness, says she will likely ride in a car towards the front of the annual Walk for Freedom continue reading …