Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, a Founder of the Freedom Singers and Sweet Honey in the Rock, Has Died

https://portside.org/2024-07-18/bernice-johnson-reagon-founder-freedom-singers-and-sweet-honey-rock-has-died

“… It is impossible to separate liberation struggles from song. And in the 1960s — at marches, and in jailhouses — the voice leading those songs was often Bernice Johnson Reagon. Her work as a scholar and activist continued throughout her life, in universities and concert halls, at protests and in houses of worship…”