Bernice Johnson Reagon sings in memory of Howard Zinn (d. Jan 2010)

After witnessing the Without Sanctuary photos and postcards, I was left with a sorrowful feeling. In the African-American tradition, that’s a time for either the blues (to stomp away the blues) or a spiritual. Bernice Johnson Reagon came up in the Albany Singing Movement in Georgia among students just like you who led the Civil Rights Protests. Spirituals became songs of protest and Bernice still uses them as a form of intervention in the human spirit.

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