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Wasn't sure where to post this: I saw Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon and other original Freedom Singers perform, 50 some years later, some of their civil rights anthems last night and talk about them, and it was very impressive and inspiring and occasionally sad and depressing(not the quality of the singing, but the subject matter talked about and sung about). The event at the Metropolitan AME Church in W. DC (where Frederick Douglas long ago once spoke) was part of the March on Washington Festival going on this week and next. Ysaye Barnswell, who was once in Sweet Honey in the Rock with Johnson Reagon, later did a version of "Wade in the Water" with "Black Lives Matter" in the lyrics. She can still emote powerfully too.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 July 2016 13:57 (eight years ago) link
Six years ago I forgot to mention that original Freedom Singers member Rutha Mae Harris sang with Bernice Johnson Reagon as did original Chuck Neblett, plus Bernice's daughter Toshi. Tonight I saw Rutha Mae Harris backed by some younger vocalists and she can still make the hair on your neck stand up with her powerful delivery of 60 year old songs. Tonight was part of the March on Washington Film Festival also, and they had a panel discussion about the role of lawyers in the movement then and now plus a showing of the film doc The Defenders about civil rights era lawyers.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 September 2022 01:29 (one year ago) link
Dr Bernice Johnson Reagon RIP @ 81. I admired her. Her civil rights activism w/ The Freedom Singers ; her role singing & leading Sweet Honey in the Rock; her Wade in the Water series & her work @ Smithsonian. From Georgia to DC she was always fighting the good fight & creating
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/17/1213897036/bernice-johnson-reagon-sweet-honey-in-the-rock-obituary
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 July 2024 12:34 (one month ago) link
When I saw a reunited Freedom Singers vocalize and tell stories at a church in DC where Frederick Douglass had once spoken, their tales of what they endured in the American south brought tears to my eyes and their passionate singing and harmonies made the hair on my neck stand up.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 July 2024 14:59 (one month ago) link
Dr Bernice Johnson Reagon and the Freedom Singers at Obama's White House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhafyI6-Bp0
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 July 2024 16:54 (one month ago) link
The Freedom Singers with Dr Bernice Johnson Reagon in 1963 at the March on Washington perform We Shall Not be Moved
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duvoETGVvYU
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 July 2024 17:06 (one month ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/arts/music/bernice-johnson-reagon-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8k0.E68D.myDjZBayNPrw&smid=url-share
New York Times obit for Dr Bernice Johnson Reagon
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 20 July 2024 16:56 (one month ago) link