This roundtable discussion is focused on the work and legacy of Georgia native and SEM Honorary member Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon (1942-2024). Founding member of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Freedom Singers, the Harambee Singers, and Sweet Honey in the Rock, Reagon was a musician, composer, song leader, activist, historian, professor, curator, innovator, and creator whose life experiences informed her philosophical and methodological approaches to Black music research and practice in cultural spaces and academe. Her blend of art, scholarship, pedagogy, and activism inhabited multiple domains that will be explored in the panelists’ remarks. Topics include Reagon’s heritage ecologies, the legacy of Black female orality, Reagon’s work at the Smithsonian, the SNCC Freedom Singers, and Reagon’s theorization of the impact of Black singing and Black sound on the Freedom Movement, Reagon's collaboration with Anne Romaine and their musical advocacy for the acquittal of Joan Little, and an exploration of how Reagon’s pioneering methods and programs facilitated the research, broad exposure and validation of the work of emerging Black scholars and practitioners of Black music and culture. We envision a robust discussion of Reagon’s life work, how her contributions challenged and extended the field of ethnomusicology, and what we can do in our research and practice to continue her legacy.