Bill Clinton represented former presidents at the funeral of Aretha Franklin in Detroit, while Barack Obama and George W. Bush each sent letters in memory of Aretha Franklin that were read aloud by ...

While away on tour in 2002, Aretha Franklin's home mysteriously burnt down, and nobody was ever sure about the origins of the ...

People make much of the mic drop, the definitive gesture that marks the end of an excellent moment. But I remember the mink drop — when the daughter of a Baptist preacher known for his million-dollar ...

Aretha Franklin died at her home in Detroit on Thursday, her publicist told the Associated Press. The soul-music legend's death follows reports earlier this week that cited friends and family of the ...

Thousands of fans have traveled to Detroit this week to pay their respects to Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, who died of pancreatic cancer on Aug. 16. From a hearse that carried Rosa Parks to a ...

"Although my heart is broken, my soul rejoices that I was able to watch God move through Aretha's life," Cissy Houston tells PEOPLE Whitney Houston’s mother Cissy Houston is mourning Aretha Franklin, ...

The world is mourning the loss of the "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin, but her legacy will live on in outer space. Shortly after Franklin's death was announced Thursday morning, NASA tweeted its ...

Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame songwriters, play an intimate St. Petersburg concert on Oct. 18, 2025.

Aretha Franklin's Estate is about to get a whole lot messier. The news broke this week that three handwritten, homemade documents that appeared to be written by Aretha and intended to be wills have ...

Three of Franklin's four sons had been in a dispute regarding the handwritten will since her death in 2018. Four months after a jury said that Aretha Franklin's 2014 handwritten will found between ...

Those who could brought their biggest voices Friday to the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, where the late Aretha Franklin was remembered by an expansive cast of peers and inheritors in a lengthy ...