“Grandmother of Juneteenth” Opal Lee, recovering from a recent hospitalization, will not participate in her annual Walk for Freedom event in Fort Worth, according to family.
“She’s 98 and the family really wants to keep her in,” Lee’s granddaughter Dione Sims told the Fort Worth Report June 17.
Lee was hospitalized in late May for unknown reasons while on a trip to receive the International Freedom Conductor Award at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Ohio. She was released from the hospital in early June and has been recovering at her Fort Worth home…