As the world mourns the loss of legendary singer Aretha Franklin, many are turning to the Queen of Soul's music as a way to grieve. Franklin died Thursday morning from pancreatic cancer at age 76. She ...

Aretha Louise Franklin, a preacher’s daughter from Memphis who was broadly acclaimed the greatest singer of the last half-century — indeed, one of the greatest singers in the history of American song ...

The Queen of Soul is gone, but her voice lives on. This evening, restaurant and cocktail lounge Golden Eagle in Reynoldstown will celebrate Aretha Franklin and her legacy with an all-Aretha playlist.

Biopics ain’t Wikipedia entries. Lives never conform to a tidy narrative arc — even one as dramatic as Aretha Franklin’s. With Respect, screenwriter Tracey Scott Wilson and director Liesl Tommy did an ...

Movies that tell the life story of a famous person have an inherent distraction factor: How closely does the actor resemble and simulate the celebrity, or provide an acceptable substitute? (The ...

Aretha Franklin performs during the 85th annual Christmas tree lighting at the New York Stock Exchange in December 2008. (Mary Altaffer/AP) Perspective by Fredara M. Hadley In “Respect,” the recently ...