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Celebrating Black activism with 'the grandmother of Juneteenth'
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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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