by October Gallery
The Rev. Al Sharpton says President Donald Trump needs to listen to Aretha Franklin’s rendition of “Respect.” “I love ‘Natural Woman,’ but ‘Respect’ goes across gender lines,” Sharpton told TMZ,…
The “Queen of Soul” once offered to post bail for civil rights leader Angela Davis. Aretha Franklin told Jet magazine in 1970 that she would pay Davis’ bail after the…
Don Cheadle remembered the late Aretha Franklin by recounting the time she unexpectedly called to congratulate him on a movie. On Thursday’s broadcast of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” the award-winning actor…
Fox News issued a confusing apology after the network showed an image of Patti LaBelle during a segment meant to honor the life of Aretha Franklin, who died Thursday at…
Singers Aretha Franklin and Patti LaBelle long had been rumored to have a pretty disharmonious relationship — though both have denied it. But the “New Attitude” singer’s moving tribute to…
“I assume you’ve heard the Aretha story,” said “Divas Live” producer Sean Murphy. He was one of a handful of people I spoke to for the 20th anniversary of the…
Aretha Franklin, the undisputed “Queen of Soul” whose powerhouse vocal cords revolutionized American music and made her one of the top-selling female musicians of all time, has died at age…
Aretha Franklin died at her home in Detroit on Thursday, her publicist confirmed to The Associated Press in a statement. She was 76. Reports that the singer was seriously ill…
Franklin died at 9:50 a.m. at her home in Detroit, surrounded by family and friends, according to a statement on behalf of Franklin’s family from her longtime publicist Gwendolyn Quinn.…
Ailing soul legend Aretha Franklin was in many people’s thoughts at the Detroit stop of Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s On The Run II tour on Monday night. Warmup act DJ Khaled…