The Post Most: Meet Opal Lee, the 94-year-old activist who marched for miles to make Juneteenth a federal holiday

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Sign up for this newsletter Read online   (Drew Angerer/Getty) Meet Opal Lee, the 94-year-old activist who marched for miles to make Juneteenth a federal holiday She began a 1,400-mile trek in 2016 from her home in Fort Worth to Washington, D.C., to ask President Barack Obama to recognize Juneteenth as a national holiday. By Meryl Kornfield ●  Read more »   Entire Portland police crowd-control unit quits over fellow officer's assault charge By Max Hauptman ●  Read more »   Federal judge strikes down CDC cruise rules in 'major victory' for Florida governor By Hannah Sampson ●  Read more »   Biden, deeply Catholic president, finds himself at odds with many U.S. bishops By Matt Viser ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Remittances aren't talked about much in discussions of northern migration. They should be. Opinion ●  By Colbert I. King ●  Read more »   Republicans, spurred by an unlikely figure, see political promise in critical race theory By Laura Meckler and Josh Dawsey ●  Read more »   Companies bet carbon labels can help the climate. Will consumers catch on? By Jessica Wolfrom ●  Read more »   Video of police officer kneeling on neck of Black 14-year-old boy prompts outrage in Montreal By Antonia Noori Farzan ●  Read more »   Severe heat and drought are the hallmarks of a changing West By Scott Wilson and Sarah Kaplan ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   The post-covid luxury spending boom has begun. It's already reshaping the economy. By Andrew Van Dam and Heather Long ●  Read more »   Native Americans are transporting a 5,000-pound totem pole to D.C. from the Pacific Northwest By Dana Hedgpeth ●  Read more »   The key to passing Biden's agenda: Getting Congress to spend a lot more time in Washington Analysis ●  By Paul Kane ●  Read more »   The 25 best sandwiches in the D.C. area By Tim Carman ●  Read more »   Ebrahim Raisi, hard-line judiciary chief, wins Iran's presidential election, state media reports By Kareem Fahim and Sarah Dadouch ●  Read more »   French Muslim women push back on the politics of the hijab: 'It's my choice. It's my life.' By Ruby Mellen and France Keyser ●  Read more »   Olympians are crying out about their mental health challenges. We should listen. Perspective ●  By Barry Svrluga ●  Read more »   Biden struggles to sell democracy abroad when it faces challenges at home By Ashley Parker, Anne Gearan and Sean Sullivan ●  Read more »   Tied down and locked away: Harrowing tales emerge from Japan's psychiatric patients By Simon Denyer ●  Read more »     More on Juneteenth (Gregory S. Schneider/The Washington Post) Celebrating the power of Juneteenth on the spot in Virginia where enslaved Africans arrived in 1619 Gov. Ralph Northam marked a new state and federal holiday for the first time as celebrants said the work of equality must continue. By Gregory S. Schneider ●  Read more »   Recognizing Juneteenth as a federal holiday is a hollow victory Opinion ●  By Eugene Robinson ●  Read more »   Juneteenth, a new national holiday, draws people to monuments and museums in D.C. By Lola Fadulu, Karina Elwood, Nicole Asbury and Rebecca Tan ●  Read more »     We think you'll like this newsletter Check out Must Reads for a curated selection of our best journalism in your inbox every Saturday, plus a peek behind the scenes into how one story came together. Sign up »

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