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	Bernice Johnson Reagon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bernice Johnson Reagon (born October 4, 1942) is a singer, composer, scholar, and social activist, who founded the a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock in 1973.
		The daughter of a Baptist minister, Reagon was born and raised in southwest Georgia, where music was an integral part of life.
		Reagon was an active participant in the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s as a member of the Freedom Singers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernice_Johnson_Reagon (244 words)

	The Leeway Foundation - Laurel Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Bernice Johnson Reagon - historian, activist, musician, founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock - was selected by The Leeway Foundation from nominees across the nation as the first recipient of The Leeway Laurel.
		Reagon is Distinguished Professor of History at American University and Curator Emerita at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
		She also was featured in the 1992 Emmy-nominated "The Songs are Free: Bernice Johnson Reagon with Bill Moyers." Dr. Reagon served as principal scholar, conceptual producer and host of the pathbreaking and Peabody Award-winning 1994 radio series "Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music Traditions," produced by National Public Radio and the Smithsonian Institution.
	www.leeway.org /html/Bernice.html (367 words)

	SWEET HONEY in the ROCK : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Reagon had earlier been active in the Civil Rights movement in Albany, from '62 sang as a member of the Freedom Singers of the SNCC (Student Non-violent Co-ordinating Committee) against the background of the events detailed in Taylor Branch's Parting The Waters: Martin Luther King And The Civil Rights Movement 1954--63 '88.
		Reagon began collecting source material on fl culture from urban and rural African-Americans, later worked as the director of fl culture at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC and in due course was appointed Curator Emerita there; she also sang with the Harambee Singers in late '60s, all fl women, a precursor of Sweet Honey.
		Reagon acted as one of the music consultants for the six-part TV documentary series Eyes On The Prize in '86; released gospel-grounded solo album River Of Life, Harmony: One '87 on Flying Fish, on which she sang all the parts herself.
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/s/S252.HTM (905 words)

	The Music Show - 17/08/2002: Bernice Johnson Reagon
		Bernice Johnson Reagon: Yes, Alan Lomax is the extension of his father’s work, John Lomax, and one of their contributions was the idea that one of the richest cultural reservoirs in the United States of America was created on the community level by working people, creating songs and stories about their lives.
		Bernice Johnson Reagon: That’s a 19th century spiritual that was used again during the Civil Rights Movement, and when you think about slavery and you think about somebody on a plantation who decides they cannot stand that experience another day, you don’t want to run by yourself, you want company.
		Bernice Johnson Reagon: One of the things we found in performing in the aftermath of September 11th was how much people who came to our audiences carried with them.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/music/mshow/s658714.htm (1504 words)

	The HistoryMakers
		As a student at Albany State College in 1961, Reagon was arrested for participating in a SNCC demonstration.
		Reagon received her doctorate in U.S. history, with a concentration in African American oral history, from Howard University in 1975.
		Bernice Johnson Reagon was the William and Camille Cosby Endowed Professor in the Fine Arts at her alma mater, Spelman College for the 2002-2003 academic year.
	www.thehistorymakers.com /biography/biography.asp?bioindex=600&category=musicMakers (286 words)

	BARNARD NEWS
		Bernice Johnson Reagon, famed composer and singer in the 19th century southern tradition, founded Sweet Honey in The Rock, a world-renowned African-American women's a cappella ensemble, in 1973.
		A historian and scholar, Reagon is a distinguished professor of history at American University and a Curator Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum of American History, where she served for 20 years.
		Reagon has served as a music consultant, composer, and performer for several award-winning film and video projects; in 1989, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for her work as an artist and scholar of African-American culture.
	www.barnard.columbia.edu /newnews/news041901.html (1424 words)

	1995 awards
		Bernice Johnson Reagon began her work as a socially conscious artist in the early 60s, during the Albany, GA, civil rights movement.
		Johnson Reagon continued this process with the formation of the all-woman ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, in 1973.
		Johnson Reagon has also been a consultant, composer and performer for several film and video projects, including the award-winning "Eyes on the Prize" series, the Emmy award-winning "We Shall Overcome," and "Roots of Resistance: A Story of the Underground Railroad," all produced for PBS.
	www.folk.org /Awards/1999.htm (850 words)

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		Reagon earned her Bachelors degree in history from Spelman College in 1970 and a doctorate in U.S. history from Howard University five years later.
		Reagon has embraced a panoply of leftwing causes both in her activism and in her singing repertoire.
		The National Organization for Women honored Bernice Johnson Reagon on September 9, 2004, at its "Second Annual Intrepid Awards Gala." Also on the bill was Vagina Monologues playwright Eve Ensler, whose play portrays an adult lesbian's molestation of a 13-year-old girl (after plying the minor with alcohol) as a beautiful experience for both.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1820 (408 words)

	A A World . Reference Room . Articles . Bernice Johnson Reagon \| PBS
		Reagon grew up surrounded by the sacred music of her father's Baptist church.
		Reagon's first of a number of solo albums was released in 1966; her second was recorded in 1967.
		In 1973 she formed the singing group Sweet Honey In The Rock, which consisted variously of four to six women, including Reagon, performing a cappella music, ranging from traditional folk, African chant, field hollers, and Baptist hymns to blues, jazz, and rap music.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/aaworld/reference/articles/bernice_johnson_reagon.html (512 words)

	Global Sound
		Bernice Johnson Reagon in conversation October 22, 2003.
		Bernice Johnson Reagon, singer, song leader, civil rights activist, and scholar, is a profound contributor to African American culture.
		Bernice was born in Albany, Georgia, in 1942.
	www.smithsonianglobalsound.org /feature_08A.aspx (226 words)

	Gallaudet University
		Bernice Johnson Reagon, an acclaimed singer, composer, producer, author, and scholar, will make the next presentation in the I. King Jordan Lecture Series on April 20 at noon in the Kellogg Conference Hotel’s Swindells Auditorium.
		Among the many awards Johnson Reagon has received for her work as a scholar in African American culture and history are a MacArthur Fellowship, the Heinz Award for the Arts and Humanities, and the Presidential Medal for contributions to public understanding of the humanities.
		Anyone needing close vision interpreting for Johnson Reagon’s lecture should contact audrey.young@gallaudet.edu.
	news.gallaudet.edu /?id=8544 (236 words)

	Bernice Johnson Reagon with Guest Artist Toshi Reagon to Sing "Freedom Songs" at the Library of Congress
		Bernice Johnson Reagon, Ph.D., was a founding member of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee Freedom Singers, a folk group that grew out of the civil rights movement and aimed to educate audiences about civil rights through song.
		Bernice Reagon’s daughter, Toshi Reagon, grew up in the midst of her mother’s musical influence, eventually carving out a niche as a performer in her own right.
		Reagon was born in Atlanta and raised in Washington, D.C. She has worked with artists of many styles, including Lenny Kravitz, Elvis Costello, Vernon Reid and Chaka Kahn and made appearances at the Lilith Festival, Carnegie Hall and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
	www.loc.gov /today/pr/2004/04-101.html (326 words)

	Bernice Johnson Reagon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Reagon is a singer, composer, cultural historian, curator and activist.
		Wearing her curator/historian hat, Reagon produced and hosted a National Public Radio/ Smithsonian Institution collaboration entitled "Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music Traditions," a series for which she received the 1994 Peabody Award for Significant and Meritorious Achievement in Broadcasting.
		In 1989 Reagon was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, also called the genius grant, for her work as an artist and scholar of African American culture.
	wupa.wustl.edu /asmbly/bio/Reagon.html (376 words)

	music-Guided By Voices
		Reagon is a singer and composer specializing in African-American oral, performance and protest traditions.
		Reagon is present to hear and see her music brought to fruition.
		Reagon, even with all her years of protesting, marching and singing, at times seemed surprised at the nuances revealed through the transcriptions of her music.
	www.citybeat.com /archives/1997/issue312/music2.html (806 words)

	Veterans of Hope
		Instead, she became a crucial part of the Freedom Movement (as it was most often called by its fl and white participants) and it transformed both her magnificent singing voice and her sense of who she was and what her life was for.
		Beginning in her own community of Albany, Georgia in the early 1960s Reagon organized, marched, sat-in, and went to jail as a leading member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the front-line, risk-taking nonviolent soldiers of the southern movement who traveled across the south challenging the anti-democratic white-controlled status quo.
		In recent years, Bernice has retired from a prolific and creative tenure as curator for the Smithsonian Institute in the area of African American history and culture.
	www.veteransofhope.org /bio.php?p=bio&vid=38 (838 words)

	Where We Live: Sweet Honey In the Rock
		Reagon opened the conference leading the participants in the spiritual, “Can’t Hide Sinner.”However, for the closing session, she requested that it feature a new group she had formed.
		Toshi Reagon, solo performing artist and leader of her band, Big Lovely, is the daughter of Sweet Honey founder/member Bernice Johnson Reagon.
		In the past, she has assisted Bernice Johnson Reagon as co-producer and assistant producer, but for The Women Gather, it is Bernice who was the assistant.
	www.wherewelive.org /cd/bio_sweet_honey.htm (888 words)

	Veterans of Hope
		Bernice Johnson Reagon and her family lived on the first floor.
		We often visited Bernice's apartment ourselves--sitting in the rocking chair or resting in her brother Junior's hammock in the sunroom.
		As Bernice continued, Aunt Hettie began to hum a little and raise her hand to shake it gently now and again.
	www.veteransofhope.org /show.php?vid=38&tid=47&sid=84 (563 words)

	Toshi Reagon : Music for Your Life : About Toshi
		Reagon has always been impossible to categorize.The guitarist fuses elements of folk, rock, pop and gospel in socially conscious anthems and heartfelt ballads.
		Raised on gospel and the blues by her mother, Bernice Johnson Reagon (founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock), and turned out by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and KISS,Toshi’s a natural-born rock goddess whose sound is a cipher of bluesy wails and shouts, and steely guitar power chords.
		The Brooklyn-based Reagon drives this motley mixture home with uplifting, inspirational messages—a sensibility she no doubt inherited from her mother, Bernice Johnson Reagon, founder of the a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock and a civil rights-era Freedom Singer.
	www.toshireagon.com /reviews2.shtml (876 words)

	CityBeat: Hope Springs Maternal (2001-08-23)
		Reagon's music bears evidence of the presence of her influences and peers.
		Reagon and her mother, the indefatigable Bernice Johnson Reagon, are set to do Friends Fest, a benefit for Community Shares on Saturday.
		Bernice Johnson Reagon, along with her late husband, Cordell, founded the Freedom Singers.
	www.citybeat.com /2001-08-23/music.shtml (1166 words)

	NOW's Second Annual Intrepid Awards Gala: Bernice Johnson Reagon
		For more than 40 years, Bernice Johnson Reagon has been a major cultural voice for justice and freedom, singing, teaching and speaking out about racism, women's rights, peace, children, and respect for culture and the planet.
		An activist whose work began as a college student in Albany, Ga., during the civil rights movement, Dr. Reagon was a member of the original SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) Freedom Singers, and a founding member in 1966 of the Atlanta-based a cappella group, the Harambee Singers.
		With her daughter and collaborator Toshi Reagon, Dr. Reagon was the score composer of the film "Beah: A Black Woman Speaks," which premiered in Los Angeles in Aug. 2003.
	www.now.org /organization/gala/2004/reagon.html (198 words)

	Toshi Reagon
		Bernice Johnson Reagon (of Sweet Honey in the Rock), Toshi has a shock or two in store.
		Reagon tends to mix her metaphors ("I'm just a little bit corny / Smiling like a baby with no troubles rumbling / And all cards on the table"), but musical and lyrical spontaneity this celebratory and emotionally wild is as hard to fault as it is to resist.
		Crossing genres as easily as breathing, Reagon has created an expansive and ground-breaking piece that captures the spirit and energy of her live shows, showcasing her intimate songwriting and her emotional performance style...
	www.queertheory.com /histories/r/reagon_toshi.htm (577 words)

	Coming Events - News & Info - Sewanee :: The University of the South
		Bernice Johnson Reagon, who recently concluded 30 years of performing with the a capella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, will deliver the 2006 Anita S. Goodstein Lecture in Women’s History at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., on March 6th.
		For over four decades, Bernice Johnson Reagon's multi-faceted career has taken her from the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement in her birthplace of Albany, Georgia to her pioneering work as a scholar, teacher and artist in the history and evolution of African American culture.
		A singer and composer, Reagon recently retired after 30 years from performing with Sweet Honey In The Rock, the internationally renowned a cappella ensemble she founded in 1973.
	www2.sewanee.edu /communications/events?id=14034 (520 words)

	Reagon Lecture
		Bernice Johnson Reagon, professor emeritus of history at American Universityand a noted composer, singer and activist, will deliver the 2006 L.M. Clark Lecture at North Carolina State University.
		Reagon received the 2003 Heinz Award for the Arts and Humanities for her work as a scholar and artist in African-American cultural history and music.
		Reagon recently retired from performing with the a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, which she founded in 1973.
	www.ncsu.edu /news/caclarklecture2006.htm (244 words)

	The Heinz Awards
		Bernice Johnson Reagon receives the Heinz Award for the Arts and Humanities for her work as a musician and cultural historian who has raised her voice in both song and civil rights advocacy.
		Reagon spent 20 years as a folklorist, scholar and curator at the Smithsonian.
		As with our first Arts and Humanities recipient, the historian and filmmaker Henry Hampton, Bernice Johnson Reagon is being honored for her work that combines both the arts and the humanities.
	www.heinzawards.net /recipients.asp?action=detail&recipientID=70 (491 words)

	Toshi Reagon, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		Toshi Reagon, the daughter of Freedom Singers Bernice Johnson and Cordell Reagon, once described herself as a "postmodern rhythm & blues woman who's got something special." Given her long-standing political awareness, that definition isn't that far off the mark.
		Toshi Reagon possesses a big, booming, earthy voice and isn't bashful about speaking her mind or showing off her ability to bend strings on her guitar.
		Born in Atlanta, Reagon was raised in Washington, D.C. the daughter of socially conscious, musically hip parents who had a vast record collection that included blues, old Negro work songs and other forms of traditional folk music.
	www.emusic.com /artist/11574/11574313.html (512 words)

	MetroActive Music \| Bernice Johnson Reagon
		The 67 tracks--arranged in four volumes devoted to choral spirituals, gospel composers, congregational singers, and community gospel choirs--were culled from Reagon's 1994 Peabody Awardwinning NPR series, for which she served as conceptual producer and host.
		Reagon also researched, wrote, and edited the extensive historic liner notes for the box set, along with scholar Lisa Brevard.
		Reagon, then an activist songleader and a member of the SNCC Freedom Singers, succinctly describes these works as "new music for a changed time."
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/03.06.97/music-9710.html (596 words)

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