Aretha Franklin was the Queen of Soul, but she was also the matriarch of her sizable family, including her four sons: ...

“Aretha went back to school after having ... according to the 2015 biography of Franklin’s life. “I still wanted to get out and hang out with my friends,” she told Ebony in 1995 of young ...

The disturbing reports were noted in David Ritz' 2014 biography Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin, along with other bombshell revelations about her life and loves. Ritz claimed her father C.L ...

Aretha Franklin purchased the Rose Estate in 1994, but the home fell into disrepair in the years before her death. Detroiters Trevor Thomas and Brandon Lynum purchased and restored the home ...

per Biography.com. She took buses instead of planes. 🍬 Franklin hung around with friends in the North End growing up in the 1950s, going to the Echo Theatre and a sweets shop at Oakland and ...

Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson sings the iconic Aretha Franklin song of which the film ... Her work has appeared in Women's World, First For Women, Biography.com and the Chicago Sun-Times.