Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon knew the power of song. She learned it singing in her childhood Baptist church. Later, as an activist in the civil rights movement, her songs helped to change the world.

A singer, composer, curator and founder of the vocal group Sweet Honey in the Rock, she provided a gospel soundtrack for the civil rights movement. By Trip Gabriel Bernice Johnson Reagon, whose ...

More than 60 years ago, Bernice Johnson Reagon stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with her fellow Freedom Singers and sent her alto voice soaring out over the quarter of a million people ...

Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, civil rights activist, scholar and musician who started the vocal ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock and co-founded the Freedom Singers and the Harambee Singers, died Tuesday ...

Bernice Johnson Reagon, a civil rights activist who co-founded The Freedom Singers and later started the African-American vocal ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, died Tuesday at the age of 81. Song ...

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, Toshi Reagon, ...

Bernice Johnson Reagon, whose stirring gospel voice helped provide the soundtrack of the civil rights movement, then went on to become a cultural historian, a curator at the Smithsonian Institution ...

Reagon also co-founded the a cappella group the Freedom Singers, who were part of the 1960s civil rights protest group the Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee (SNCC). By Gil Kaufman One of the ...

Song leader and civil rights activist Bernice Johnson Reagon has died. She was 81 years old. Her daughter Toshi Reagon shared the news last night in a Facebook post. Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong has this ...

Bernice Johnson Reagon, civil rights song leader and co-founder of The Freedom Singers who later started the acapella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, has died at the age of 81. Reagon’s death was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the most powerful voices of the civil rights movement, Sweet Honey in the Rock co-founder Bernice Johnson Reagon, has died ...