Supporters insist that the one-woman stage play will uplift the audience, even as they learn about Fannie Lou Hamer.

Two days before the Nov. 5 election, Opal Lee will bring a play to Fort Worth that pays tribute to Hamer’s legacy as a voting ...

More than 80 years have passed since a racist mob destroyed Opal Lee’s family home in Fort Worth, Texas, but the 97-year-old said she still remembers the White crowd that forced her family out ...

The “grandmother of Juneteenth," is bringing a play to a Fort Worth stage on Sunday highlighting Fannie Lou Hamer's legacy ...

Fort Worth’s Grandmother of Juneteenth, Opal Lee, wants to motivate and inspire North Texas to get out and vote.

Opal Lee, the civil rights activist whose crusade helped to make Juneteenth a federal holiday, celebrated her 98th birthday this week. She helped organize one of the first major celebrations in ...

Opal Lee, 94, was at the centre of a campaign to recognise Juneteenth as a national holiday in the US Opal Lee was 12 when a mob of white supremacists vandalised and set fire to her family's home ...

The story of a civil rights leader, from here in North Texas, is playing out on stage in Fort Worth. The grandmother of ...

The National Juneteenth Museum gave Opal Lee an early birthday gift — new renderings for the museum that she has long championed. Lee, also known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth” will ...

Two days before the Nov. 5 election, Opal Lee will bring a play to Fort Worth that pays tribute to Hamer’s legacy as a voting rights advocate, according to a news release. The production will be ...