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Bernice Johnson Reagon, Civil Rights Activist and Sweet Honey in the Rock Founder, Dies at 81

Reagon's legacy includes significant contributions to music and social justice.

Bernice Johnson Reagon, civil rights activist, singer, composer, and scholar, died on Tuesday (July 16) at the age of 81. Bernice served as a founding member of The Freedom Singers established by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in the early 1960s. Sweet Honey in the Rock was a three-time Grammy Award-nominated group that expressed their history as black women through song, dance, and sign language.

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