Bernice Johnson Reagon has been played on NTS shows including Double Penetration w/ Martine Syms, with Give Your Hands To Struggle first played on 18 March 2021.

Bernice Johnson Reagon (born on 4 October 1942; died 16 July 2024) was an American song leader, composer, scholar, and social activist remembered for being a founding member of The Freedom Singers and for founding the all-black female a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock. Reagon, along with other members of The Freedom Singers, realized the power of collective singing to unify the disparate groups who began to work together in the 1964 Freedom Summer protests in the South.

Reagon devoted her life to social justice through music via recordings, activism, community singing, and scholarship. She earned her Ph.D. from Howard University, becoming a cultural historian centered on the role of music, and was an emeritus faculty member in the History Department at The American University. She had also been a scholar-in-residence at Stanford and received an honorary doctorate of music from Berklee College of Music.