 And so for the first time, those old songs, you understand in a way that nobody could ever teach you. In 1963, Bernice Johnson married her Freedom Singers co-founder, Cordell Regan. They had two children, Quantana and Toshi, who became a star in her own right. After her 1967 divorce, Regan founded the women's a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock. For each child that's born, a morning star rises