Bernice Johnson Reagon, a powerful voice for social justice who co-founded the Freedom Singers, a touring group that raised money and morale for the civil rights movement, and later led the ...

Bernice Johnson Reagon, the civil rights activist and singer behind vocal groups like the Freedom Singers and Sweet Honey in the Rock, has died. She was 81. Reagon’s daughter, the musician Toshi ...

By Trip Gabriel Bernice Johnson Reagon, whose stirring gospel voice helped provide the soundtrack of the civil rights movement, and who went on to become a cultural historian, a curator at the ...

Civil rights activist, musician, and scholar Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, who co-founded The Freedom Singers, died at the age of 81 on July 16, 2024, according to her daughter, musician Toshi Reagon.

Bernice Johnson Reagon singing in photo by Roland Freeman, 1980. Program in African American Culture Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution ...

What a week: Toshi Reagon remembers her mom, Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt at Woolly, Ocean Vuong on his new book, a Southeast festival, and music from Raveena, Ramona, and Amyl ...

Photographic portrait of Bernice Johnson Reagon, taken by Dane Penland, 1981. Smithsonian Institution Archives Bernice Johnson Reagon—along with Cordell Reagon, Rutha Harris, and Charles Neblett ...

Bernice Johnson Reagon, the founder of the women's a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock, died on Tuesday in Washington. She was 81 and died in a hospital, according to her daughter ...

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