At 94, She Still Works to Change Lives — and Minds — Every Day
For community members who are bedridden and cannot leave their homes, Ms. Opal personally delivers boxes of food from the food pantry on a regular schedule. The food pantry has also connected her with people who are looking for a livable wage, so she helped to launch Opal’s Farm. The farm provides jobs and an education to workers, many of whom are recently incarcerated and struggling to find a job. Finally, her efforts to make Juneteenth a holiday bring her all over the country with marches and meetings. She wants people to know that it is not “a Texas thing,” rather something the ...
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