Fort Worth native Kirk Franklin will headline the HBCU Swingman Classic to kick off All-Star Weekend in Arlington this year, Major League Baseball announced Monday. The 20-time Grammy Award winner and ...

Columnist Bud Kennedy has written about Fort Worth activist Opal Lee since 2015, when she talked publicly for the first time about the Juneteenth 1939 attack by a white mob that ransacked her family’s ...

Opal Lee has been barnstorming the nation, telling her heroic story of Juneteenth unity to colleges and civic groups amazed at the power and energy of this bold 96-year-old Texan. But the other day, ...

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 her ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — In her 97 years, Opal Lee has seen a lot. The civil rights activist has marched across the country, served as an honored guest at the White House and even been nominated for a ...