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. Her ...

ALBANY – During the 1960s, Bernice Johnson Reagon was a powerful voice for change and equality as part of the Freedom Singers, a group that toured the country in support of the civil rights movement.

Reagon, who died July 16, was one of the powerful singers who helped galvanize the civil rights movement in the 1960s as a member of the Freedom Singers quartet. Originally broadcast in 1988. This is ...

During the civil rights movement of the early 1960s, The Freedom Singers traveled across the country to raise funds for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Their songs spread a message of ...

Bernice Johnson Reagon, the civil rights activist and singer behind vocal groups like the Freedom Singers and Sweet Honey in the Rock, has died. She was 81. Reagon’s daughter, the musician Toshi ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "AIN'T GONNA LET NOBODY TURN ME 'ROUND") THE FREEDOM SINGERS: (Singing) Ain't going to let nobody, Lordy, turn me 'round, turn me 'round, ...