Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation SINGER AND SCHOLAR, DR. BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON TO DELIVER SONG-TALK PRESENTATION AT LOYOLA’S 14th ANNUAL MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. CONVOCATION
Award-winning performer will deliver free public lecture at Loyola College on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2007 and sign her CDs.
 Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, award-winning a capella performer, author and Professor emeritus of History at American University, will deliver “We Who Believe In Freedom Cannot Rest . . .: Bernice Johnson Reagon on Song in African-American Civic and Spiritual Life” at the 14th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation at Loyola College on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2007. The Convocation begins at 7 p.m. in McGuire Hall on the College’s North Charles Street campus, followed by a question-and-answer session, a reception and a CD signing. The presentation, which will include music, and reception are free and open to the public, but tickets are required.
A singer and composer, Reagon retired from Sweet Honey in the Rock, the internationally renowned a capella ensemble she founded in 1973. Producer of most the group’s recordings, including the Grammy-nominated Still the Same Me (2000), Reagon is also a noted author and composer. Her publications include If You Don’t Go, Don’t Hinder Me: The African-American Sacred Song Tradition, a collection of essays; We’ll Understand it Better By and By: Pioneering African-American Gospel Composers; and We Who Believe in Freedom: Sweet Honey on the Rock: Still on the Journey. She is the compiler and author of Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs, a two-CD anthology accompanied by a booklet. Reagon, who holds a bachelor’s degree from Atlanta’s Spelman College and a Ph.D. in American History from Howard University, has also served as a performer, music consultant and producer for several radio, film and video projects, including the Peabody Award-winning Wade in the Water: African-American Sacred Music Traditions and 1998’s Africans in America film series, which also won a Peabody. She is Curator emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History and previously held a William and Camille Cosby Endowed Professorship at Spelman. In 2003, she received the Heinz Award for the Arts and Humanities from the Heinz Family Foundation. The Convocation and reception are sponsored by Loyola’s Office of Academic Affairs and Diversity. Free overflow parking is available at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen with shuttle service to and from the College. An hourly fee lot is available on Bunn Drive. For more information and to receive complimentary tickets, please call 410-617-5138 or click here to register on-line. Persons with disabilities who may require special services should contact the Office of Disability Support Services at 410-617-2062 or (TDD) 410-617-2141 at least 48 hours prior to the event. |
