Lee, who's from Texas and known by many as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” was added to the list of "incredible heroines of their time," in Mattel's words, who are featured in the Barbie Inspiring ...

Mattel is releasing a new Barbie honoring Opal Lee, 99, also known as the “grandmother” of Juneteenth. Developing the doll ...

For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — ...

A Juneteenth mural in Galveston is located at the site of the issuance of General Order No. 3, which demanded “absolute equality” between enslaved Texans and former slave owners after the Emancipation ...