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A history icon made a stop in Richmond on Wednesday. Doctor Opal Lee, who many recognize as the “

The White House released a video with Opal Lee, an activist who helped lead the movement to make

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In 1865, Union Army Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform the country's last enslaved people that they had ...

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Opal Lee's walk symbolizes the 2.5 years it took for the news of

In 1865 General Gordon Granger delivered the message that would eventually

In 2016, 89-year-old Opal Lee walked from her home in Fort Worth, Texas, to the nation's capital in an effort to get

This year, Black Americans are celebrating the 159th anniversary of the enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas being ...

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Opal Lee sat with her family on the Senate floor as lawmakers recognized her mission to make

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