The very first recordings of Aretha Franklin, captured in Detroit when she was all of 14 years old, are remastered and offer a window into the early sounds of a genius. Aretha’s father, the Rev. C.L.

There’s been a lot of buzz around Nat Geo’s four-part series, Genius: Aretha, starring Oscar-nominated actress Cynthia Erivo as Aretha. The series, which premiered last Sunday, peels back the veil on ...

Aretha Franklin’s “Amazing Grace” is still the greatest gospel album ever made. It was the soundtrack to so many Sundays in Black America.

With the well-earned nickname "Queen of Soul," there are few voices more iconic than Aretha Franklin's. From the 1950s until her death in August 2018, Franklin's soaring vocals have had a towering ...

Not everyone celebrated the late Aretha Franklin at her passing. The hate website, Right of the Right, views the universal mourning for “The Queen of Soul” as the culminating chapter of how “a jewish ...

Aretha Franklin’s album “Amazing Grace” sold more than two million copies, becoming the best-selling gospel album of all time. She recorded it over two days in 1972 at the New Temple Missionary ...

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Three years after its previous installment, the third edition of National Geographic’s “Genius” series finally arrives Sunday. Like the two first chapters, which traced the lives of Einstein and ...

Houston, who died Oct. 7, started out on the gospel circuit as a child, sang backup for Aretha Franklin and later guided her daughter, Whitney, to superstardom. Originally broadcast in 1998. This is ...