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Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon (1942-2024) was an American song leader, composer, professor of American history, curator at the Smithsonian, and social activist. In the early 1960s, she was a founding member of the Freedom Singers, organized by the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the Albany Movement for civil rights...

Rev. Ayanna Johnson Watkins is the co-executive director. MLK50: Justice Through Journalism. Watkins has served and led in the nonprofit arena for over 20 years as a social worker, clergy person and community organizer. In 2019, she became the first lead organizer and executive director of Memphis Interfaith Coalition for Action and...

Rev. Dr. Scott Black Johnston is senior pastor of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York, NY. He previously served as pastor of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, GA, and is a former professor of homiletics at Austin (TX) Theological Seminary. He is a graduate of Yale Divinity School and...

Rev. Leon H. Johnston is pastor of Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frontier, Saskatchewan.

Rev. Kathryn Z. Johnston began serving with the congregation of Mechanicsburg Presbyterian Church as Senior Pastor/Head of Staff in March 2009.  Ordained in 2001, Rev. Johnston previously served as Solo Pastor at Dickinson Presbyterian Church, Carlisle, PA. A graduate of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL, Kathryn earned her M.Div....

Fr. Benedict Jonak lives at Holy Cross Priory, Leicester, where he is Catholic chaplain to the city's two universities. (Source and photo: english.op.org)

Fr. Jan Michael Joncas is a Catholic priest, liturgical composer, author, and longtime professor whose career combines parish ministry with academic work in theology and liturgical studies. Ordained in 1980, he served in several pastoral and campus-ministry roles before joining the University of St. Thomas, where he taught theology and...

Victoria Emily Jones graduated from UNC–Chapel Hill in 2010 with a BA in journalism and English literature and a minor in music, and she has done some postgraduate coursework in worship and the arts at Regent College in Vancouver. Now she works as an editorial freelancer and pursues independent research...