Bernice Johnson Reagon

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are." -- Bernice Johnson Reagon In 1995 Reagon received a Charles Frankel Prize for her contributions to the public understanding of the...

In this article: The Freedom Singers, Wade in the Water, Albany State University, Washington, DC, Baptist minister, Peabody Award, Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, Cordell Reagon, and Spelman College

...dictator Eric Gairy in 1979, and became the chairman of the Free Nelson Mandela Movement in San Antonio Texas. SNCC activist Bernice Johnson Reagon described the Civil Rights Movement as the "borning movement" of the 1960s. The Womens'...

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...question. The singers will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Koger Center. Sweet Honey in the Rock was formed in 1973 by Bernice Johnson Reagon, who founded the group in Washington, D.C. Her vocal talent got her an invite to join Sweet...

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...several children's records as well as those intended for adults. Sweet Honey in the Rock was founded in 1973 by Bernice Johnson Reagon who founded the group out of singers from a vocal workshop she was teaching with the Washington, D.C....

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...in Chapel Hill. He secured scholarships for such luminaries as civil rights leader John Lewis, today a U.S. congressman; Bernice Johnson Reagon, founder of the musical group Sweet Honey in the Rock; eventual black power leader Stokely...

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...member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and co-founder of The Freedom Singers. Reagon began performing when she dropped out of college; soon afterward, Lenny Kravitz invited her to open for him on his first world...

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...liberation. That's no real surprise given the a cappella ensemble's roots: Sweet Honey was founded in Washington in 1973 by Bernice Johnson Reagon, a Baptist minister's daughter who had been on the front lines of the civil rights movement. In...

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...Honey in the Rock seems to have weathered the 2004 retirement of Bernice Johnson Reagon in fine form. The group's first recording without Reagon, "Experience . . . 101," is a children's music album, but the vocal harmonies by the six...

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...and phrasing differently, so you get more diversity in the sound. "It has been very special for me to share that," Reagon continued. "My music is an invitation to singers who might assume there's not much there for them. If choruses can...

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...Carol Maillard. Thirty-three women have been members over the years. What no one knew was that during filming, Reagon would announce she was going to retire from Sweet Honey after the concerts. Her retirement, and the auditions to find a...

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