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Electrical issues with wiring led to a six-alarm fire at The Cooper apartments in Fort Worth, Texas, causing evacuations and displacing hundreds of residents.
EXTINCTION EVENT — So many of Andrew Cuomo’s flaws were distinctive to him: The grievance and paranoia, the imperial sense of ...
Opal Lee, a civil rights leader known as the “grandmother of Juneteenth,” saw her childhood home burned down in 1939. Habitat for Humanity in Fort Worth, Texas, built a new home for her on the site in ...
In 2016, Lee embarked on a 1,400-mile journey from Fort Worth to Washington, D.C., to lobby for the holiday.
Ford was one of hundreds of people who spent their Juneteenth morning rolling, strolling and pushing strollers for Opal’s Walk for Freedom in Fort Worth.
Celebrations are being held around the country to commemorate the Juneteenth holiday marking the day in 1865 when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Texas.
Since its start in 2016, Opal’s Walk for Freedom has drawn a bigger crowd each year. “It used to start and march down Evans Avenue there in Fort Worth, but now it’s really grown,” Leo ...
Opal Lee's Walk for Freedom wrapped up in Fort Worth Thursday morning, but it was missing the person who started it all.
FORT WORTH, Texas — Despite not being physically there, Opal Lee's presence was felt throughout the annual Walk For Freedom celebrating Juneteenth in Fort Worth. Hundreds of people took on Lee's ...
Lee couldn’t lead the Walk for Freedom due to health issues, but walkers still felt inspired by the Grandmother of Juneteenth.
Opal Lee spent decades walking and advocating for Juneteenth to be recognized as a national holiday.
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