July 18, 2024 Bernice Johnson Reagon, a Founder of the Freedom Singers and Sweet Honey in the Rock, Has Died Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong National Public Radio 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. She died Tuesday at the age of 81.
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