Aretha Franklin, the "queen of soul" known ... By 1968 she was renowned throughout America and Europe as "Lady Soul" - a symbol of black pride who appeared on the cover of Time and was given ...

Aretha Franklin singing at Barack Obama's inauguration ... By 1968 she was renowned throughout America and Europe as "Lady Soul" - a symbol of black pride who appeared on the cover of Time and ...

The U.S. history of racist surveillance The Queen of Soul was not the first ... producer Jerry Wexler said of Aretha Franklin, “I think of Aretha as Our Lady of Mysterious Sorrows.

Aretha Franklin was an American singer and songwriter known as "The Queen of Soul." Franklin began singing in her father's congregation as a young girl and released her first album, Songs of Faith ...

To Jennifer Hudson, Aretha Franklin became much more than a music legend when the talk show host was preparing to play her ...

Over two days in January 1972, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin — she was 29 at the time — sweeps into the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts in front of a congregation and ...