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Assuming all went as scheduled, Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts presented Bernice Johnson Reagon with an honorary doctorate of music last Friday at their annual Liberal Arts Symposium. Reagon founded the a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock and is curator emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. She already holds a doctorate in U.S.A. History with a concentration in African American History, Cultural and Oral History Methodologies, earned at Howard University near the beginning of her long career as a folklorist, singer and composer.