For many Black folks, celebrating these opposed historical figures on the same day is wildly ironic and makes me feel unsettled. So, I cannot help but wonder if Dr. King’s soul was able to rest easy last night.
Here's what you should know about Opal Lee, the "Grandmother of Juneteenth."
Juneteenth -- a day that commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers freed remaining slaves in Galveston, Texas over two years after Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation -- has now been signed off on as a federal holiday by President Joe Biden.