{"id":440150,"date":"2026-09-18T16:50:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440150\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T16:50:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:50:35","slug":"michelle-obama-to-visit-texas-for-juneteenth-event-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440150\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama to visit Texas for Juneteenth event in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former first lady <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/politics\/article\/barack-and-michelle-obama-surprise-first-visitors-22312666.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Michelle Obama<\/a> will visit Fort Worth next month to celebrate activist Opal Lee\u2019s 100th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>The National Juneteenth Museum will host Obama on Oct. 7 at the Fort Worth Convention Center as part of its Uniting Voices Speaker Series. The event will honor Lee, a 99-year-old activist and retired teacher.<\/p>\n<p>General admission tickets are available for $300. Preferred seating costs $500, and premium seating costs $750.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, known as the \u201cGrandmother of Juneteenth,\u201d was pivotal\u00a0in the movement to make Juneteenth a federal holiday in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Fort Worth native attended Wiley College in Marshall, where she earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in elementary education. She later received a master\u2019s degree in counseling and guidance\u00a0from North Texas State University, now the University of North Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former first lady Michelle Obama will visit Fort Worth next month to celebrate activist Opal Lee\u2019s 100th birthday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-440150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}