While her career took her all over the world, Detroit was the place she called home until her 2018 death. Franklin owned many ...

Jan. 3, 1987, marked a monumental moment in music history. On this day, Aretha Franklin — known around the world as the “Queen of Soul” — became the first woman ...

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 ...