{"id":2,"date":"2013-12-03T00:04:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T00:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.124.145\/~bernicej\/staging\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2018-05-02T23:28:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T23:28:00","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.reagonarts.com\/bjr-staging\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/113155465\" width=\"500\" height=\"289\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bernice Johnson Reagon&#039;s final performance with Sweet Honey in the Rock.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernicejohnsonreagon.com\/about#videos\">More videos available >> <\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"left-col\" class=\"grid col-460\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernicejohnsonreagon.com\/scholar-activist\/\">Scholarship and Activism<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"add_posts\"><ul><div class=\"add_posts_content\" style=\"clear:both;\"><h2 class=\"title\" style=\"clear: none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reagonarts.com\/bjr-staging\/'\/2014\/12\/02\/2000-leeway-laurel\/'\">2000 First National Leeway Laurel Award<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"post-content\" style=\"clear:both\";><p>Philadelphia artist Linda Lee Alter established the Leeway Foundation in 1993 to promote female artists in the five-county Philadelphia area. <\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reagonarts.com\/bjr-staging\/'\/2014\/12\/02\/2000-leeway-laurel\/'\" class=\"readmore\">Read the full post<\/a><\/div><hr style=\"margin:10px 0\"><\/div><div class=\"add_posts_content\" style=\"clear:both;\"><h2 class=\"title\" style=\"clear: none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reagonarts.com\/bjr-staging\/'\/2014\/12\/02\/1995-presidential-medal\/'\">1995 Presidential Medal and The Charles E Frankel Prize<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"post-content\" style=\"clear:both\";><p>In 1995 Dr. Reagon was awarded the Presidential Medal and The Charles E Frankel Prize For Contributions To The Public Understanding Of The Humanities. <\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reagonarts.com\/bjr-staging\/'\/2014\/12\/02\/1995-presidential-medal\/'\" class=\"readmore\">Read the full post<\/a><\/div><hr style=\"margin:10px 0\"><\/div><div class=\"add_posts_content\" style=\"clear:both;\"><h2 class=\"title\" style=\"clear: none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reagonarts.com\/bjr-staging\/'\/2014\/12\/02\/1989-macarthur-fellowship\/'\">1989 MacArthur Fellowship<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"post-content\" style=\"clear:both\";><p>Dr. Reagon was awarded a MacArthur Fellows award in 1989. This is an unrestricted fellowship, awarded \"to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.\"<br \/>\n<cite>&#8212; from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macfound.org\/fellows\/368\/\">John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation website<\/a><\/cite><\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reagonarts.com\/bjr-staging\/'\/2014\/12\/02\/1989-macarthur-fellowship\/'\" class=\"readmore\">Read the full post<\/a><\/div><hr style=\"margin:10px 0\"><\/div><div class=\"add_posts_content\" style=\"clear:both;\"><h2 class=\"title\" style=\"clear: none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reagonarts.com\/bjr-staging\/'\/2014\/12\/02\/reverend-rick-spalding\/'\">Introduction of Dr. Reagon by Reverend Rick Spalding<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"post-content\" style=\"clear:both\";><h3>Williams College, Williamstown, MA, Berkshire Institute for Student Activism<\/h3>\n<p><cite>November 11, 2006 closing presentation to a conference of students, faculty and Community activists exploring ways to have student led organizing linked with issues in the community hosting the campuses. <\/cite><\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reagonarts.com\/bjr-staging\/'\/2014\/12\/02\/reverend-rick-spalding\/'\" class=\"readmore\">Read the full post<\/a><\/div><hr style=\"margin:10px 0\"><\/div><div class=\"add_posts_content\" style=\"clear:both;\"><h2 class=\"title\" style=\"clear: none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reagonarts.com\/bjr-staging\/'\/2014\/12\/02\/appreciation-glenor-roberts\/'\">Appreciation From Glenor Roberts<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"post-content\" style=\"clear:both\";><p>On the eve of President Barack Obama taking office in 2008, Glenor Roberts, programme advisor to Mpenzi, part of The Healing Foundation, wrote in appreciation of Dr. Reagon:<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reagonarts.com\/bjr-staging\/'\/2014\/12\/02\/appreciation-glenor-roberts\/'\" class=\"readmore\">Read the full post<\/a><\/div><hr style=\"margin:10px 0\"><\/div><\/ul><\/div><div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of #col-left --><\/p>\n<div id=\"right-col\" class=\"grid col-460\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernicejohnsonreagon.com\/musician-producer\">Music, Producing<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernicejohnsonreagon.com\/composer-author\">Writing<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"add_posts\"><ul><div class=\"add_posts_content\" style=\"clear:both;\"><h2 class=\"title\" style=\"clear: none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reagonarts.com\/bjr-staging\/'\/2014\/12\/03\/solo-folk-performances\/'\">Solo Folk Performances<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"post-content\" style=\"clear:both\";>\n<p>I began singing as a solo unaccompanied singer in 1962. It was a great time for folk music of all kinds: traditional music of all kinds form many cultures,  new topical songs, freedom songs. And so many places to sing, my first job was as an unaccompanied folk singer at Caf&#233; Lena Folk Club in Saratoga Springs, New York.<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reagonarts.com\/bjr-staging\/'\/2014\/12\/03\/solo-folk-performances\/'\" class=\"readmore\">Read the full post<\/a><\/div><hr style=\"margin:10px 0\"><\/div><div class=\"add_posts_content\" style=\"clear:both;\"><h2 class=\"title\" style=\"clear: none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reagonarts.com\/bjr-staging\/'\/2014\/12\/03\/freedom-singers\/'\">Freedom Singers<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"post-content\" style=\"clear:both\";><p>I date my work as an organizer from being a student leader in my home town of<br \/>\nAlbany, Georgia. My work as an organizer, and singer was combined in my work as a <em>Freedom Singer<\/em> and field secretary for SNCC. We sang wherever we could find an audience, from concert halls, to living rooms to elementary schools.<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reagonarts.com\/bjr-staging\/'\/2014\/12\/03\/freedom-singers\/'\" class=\"readmore\">Read the full post<\/a><\/div><hr style=\"margin:10px 0\"><\/div><div class=\"add_posts_content\" style=\"clear:both;\"><h2 class=\"title\" style=\"clear: none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reagonarts.com\/bjr-staging\/'\/2014\/11\/30\/harambee-singers\/'\">Harambee Singers<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"post-content\" style=\"clear:both\";><p>In 1966, a group of parents who had started an interracial pre-school in Atlanta had a fundraiser for the school. We created the Penny Festival, the script was created by Charlie Cobb, Julius Lester, Vincent Harding and myself. After the performance, Mary Ethel Jones and Mattie Casey knocked on my door and said, we want to sing. We formed the <em>Harambee Singers<\/em>, a group of five or six Black Women a cappella singers who sang for the Black Consciousness\/Black Studies\/Black Power\/Black Arts gatherings. It was a choral Black women collective voice calling for unity.<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reagonarts.com\/bjr-staging\/'\/2014\/11\/30\/harambee-singers\/'\" class=\"readmore\">Read the full post<\/a><\/div><hr style=\"margin:10px 0\"><\/div><div class=\"add_posts_content\" style=\"clear:both;\"><h2 class=\"title\" style=\"clear: none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reagonarts.com\/bjr-staging\/'\/2014\/11\/30\/sweet-honey-rock\/'\">Sweet Honey in the Rock<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"post-content\" style=\"clear:both\";><p>Now moving well into it fourth decade, <em>Sweet Honey In The Rock<\/em>, was organized by Bernice Johnson Reagon as an African American women a cappella ensemble in 1973 in Washington, DC. <\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reagonarts.com\/bjr-staging\/'\/2014\/11\/30\/sweet-honey-rock\/'\" class=\"readmore\">Read the full post<\/a><\/div><hr style=\"margin:10px 0\"><\/div><div class=\"add_posts_content\" style=\"clear:both;\"><h2 class=\"title\" style=\"clear: none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reagonarts.com\/bjr-staging\/'\/2014\/09\/11\/songtalker\/'\">songtalker<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"post-content\" style=\"clear:both\";><p>I used the term\u00a0<em>songtalk<\/em>\u00a0for the first time in 1975 to name the genre of a theater work,\u00a0<em>A Day, A Life, A People<\/em>. 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