Celebrating Black activism with 'the grandmother of Juneteenth'

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Published 2024-06-19
It was eight years ago that civil rights icon Opal Lee decided to walk 1,400 miles from her Texas home to the White House, calling for Juneteenth to become of federal holiday. NBC News' Bianca Velazquez spoke with the woman called the grandmother of Juneteenth.

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All Comments (20)
  • @MinutemenGeneral9974
    Race baiters gonna race bait. I didn't grow up with this, and I'm not gonna celebrate it. Real Americans shouldn't.
  • @IGBOAmericanKing
    As an African American I found this holiday both insulting and demeaning. Its based mostly on lies, the Ebonics term Juneteenth is also insulting. The holiday is suppose to celebrate the last slaves to be freed in America which is not Texas June 1865 as the holiday says. It is really August 1866 when the five so called civilized tribes of the South released their 20 thousand AFRICAN slaves after working out an agreement with the U.S. .. The Creek , Cherokee, Seminoles, Chickasaw and Choctaw were those tribes. Look it up and know the truth, instead of rejecting my comment and staying brainwashed. I say Africans because all black people in America up until the 14 th amendment in 1868, were not American citizens, nor had birthright citizenship. The Naturalization act of 1790 by the first president and congress restricted U.S. Citizenship to European Americans only. So anyone calling a black person an AMERICAN before the 14th amendment is plain out misleading you and distorting historical records.
  • @maureencora1
    June 19, 2024 Happy Juneteenth Liberation Day 159 yrs. Now & Forever Free.God Bless Ms. Opal'.
  • @Phytebyte
    when you guys gonna give black people their own news channel lol, I'm joking obviously
  • @rob1129
    The IRONY of how many people were plugged on Juneteenth is better than any meme !
  • @Zooby19
    Funny this became a holiday after the George Floyd incident... They couldn't possibly have anything to do with each other ..
  • @js6728
    she looks like the ones that sided with it
  • @Simple-xo1jj
    Whaaaaaaah muh slavveerrry Whaaaaaaah muh black pepo Whaaaaaaah!