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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon: Black Women’s issues

    Speech by Bernice Johnson Reagon, given November 11, 1980 at Barnard College’s Reid Lectureship Women’s Issues Luncheon, titled “My Black Mothers and Sisters: On Beginning a Cultural Autobiography.” Tape begins with Reagon singing a poem by June Jordan. She speaks of Black women’s roles in her mother’s generation, the courageous actions of Fannie Lou Townsend…

  • Sweet Honey in the Rock

    Program contains excerpts from a Sweet Honey in the Rock performance at P.S. 41 in March 1978 and an interview by Donna Allegra with Bernice Johnson Reagon, Pat (Johnson?), Evelyn Maria Harris and other members (not introduced) about the group and their music.

  • From the Vault: Odetta

    This week on From the Vault we pay tribute to legendary singer Odetta who died on December 2, 2008. In her over 60 years of songwriting and performing, Pacifica Radio Archives is fortunate to have preserved 2 wonderful recordings. First we have a conversation with Odetta and WBAI producer Celestine Ware from 1971 in which…

  • Wade in the water.

    Contemporary gospel composers: stretching the boundaries. Produced by Bernice Johnson Reagon and Smithsonian Institution.

  • Democracy Now : February 14 : Civil Rights Music

    Democracy Now : February 14 : Civil Rights Music / Pacifica Foundation| Produced by Julie Drizin and Amy Goodman| hosted by Amy Goodman. – CONTENT: pt.1. Political headlines (3:00)– pt.2. Civil rights music| look at the musical journey through the civil rights movement with historian and singer Bernice Johnson Reagon, one of the original Freedom…

  • Carry on Black quartet singing / Bernice Johnson Reagon ; interviewed by John Patton.

    Bernice Johnson Reagon, one of the founders of Sweet Honey in the Rock, discusses carrying on some of the musical traditions of quartet singing. She explains the traditional music’s impact on present Rhythm and Blues and gospel music, her involvement in the Civil Rights movement, and the role of her education at Spellman College where…

  • Harambe vocalist / Bernice Johnson Reagon; interviewed by Elaine Heffernan.

    On survival of Black culture and her own music. Includes “I won’t crumble if you fall.”

  • Freedom songs : music of the Civil Rights movement / produced by Iemanja Sibanye.

    Dr. Bernice Reagon, Director of the Program in Black American Culture at the Smithsonian’s Museum of American Hisotry, examines how the freedom songs articulated community concerns, and talks about her experiences as a singer and activist in the Albany, Georgia, movement.|FREEDOM SONGS : MUSIC OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT / Dr. Bernice Reagon| produced by…

  • THE POWER OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN / produced by Pamela Burton, Ginny Z. Berson, Jean Robertson, Peggy Bray and Bari Scott.

    Four part program which examines the work and impact of several African-American women. Examines Sweet Honey in the Rock, Shirley Chisholm, Fanny Lou Hammer, and Rosa Parks.|THE POWER OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN / produced by Pam Burton, Ginny Z. Berson, Jean Roberson, Peggy Bray and Bari Scott. Four part program which examines the work and impact…

  • We shall overcome / produced by David King Dunaway.

    How the early 1960s civil rights movement produced the Freedom Singers. Bernice Johnson Reagon, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Nina Simone, and Len Chandler. Demonstrations in Selma and Birmingham.|WE SHALL OVERCOME / produced by David King Dunaway. SERIES: Pie in the sky. Featuring on-the-spot recordings of demonstrations in Birmingham and Selma. Included are concert recordings of…