A 270-page file shows "disgusting suspicion of the famed Black singer, her work, and activists around her,” according to journalist Jenn Dize. FBI surveillance files tracking Aretha Franklin’s racial ...

The FBI was keeping tabs on late singer Aretha Franklin's civil rights activism in the 1960s and '70s, according to documents recently declassified by a journalist using the Freedom of Information Act ...

*According to recently declassified FBI files on Aretha Fraklin, the government spent years surveilling the late singer’s civil rights activism in the 1960s and ’70s. According to PEOPLE, journalist ...

Young Aretha would meet visitors to the Franklin home from every walk of life, including some of the most prominent gospel musicians of the day (Clara Ward and James Cleveland), many of the great ...

The world wept when the queen of soul Aretha Franklin passed in 2018, but — befitting an icon who sang timeless classics like “A Natural Woman” — her legend lives on. Respect, the Franklin biopic ...

Aretha Franklin, justifiably hailed as the Queen of Soul and one of the greatest singers of any music genre, died Thursday at her home in Detroit, her publicist confirmed to the Associated Press. She ...

Rest in peace to Aretha Franklin, the truest soul diva, pop queen, gospel belter, and cathartic medium ever to fuse those roles into a single spirit. Franklin’s has been no ordinary celebrity death — ...

After he scored a U.K. hit with his debut single “Hey Joe,” Jimi Hendrix didn’t try to repeat himself. “Purple Haze” and “The Wind Cries Mary,” the originals that were his second and third releases, ...

WHAT IT'S ABOUT This third installment in NatGeo's "Genius" series begins with Aretha Franklin's (Cynthia Erivo, "Harriet," Broadway's "The Color Purple'') struggle to find a new sound by the ...