This weekend, a new Aretha Franklin biopic 'Respect', starring Jennifer Hudson, comes to theaters. To mark the occasion, Billboard selects 11 times the Queen of Soul made awards show history. In 2015, Franklin, then 73, made American President Barack Obama teary-eyed and honoree Carole King ecstatic when she performed her 1967 classic '(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman' (which King co-wrote) at the Kennedy Center Honors.

Qwest is "an extraordinary new trove of sixty-six concert films", with performances ranging from the nineteen-fifties through the nineteen-eighties, New Yorker reports. It is a streaming site and TV channel, founded in 2017 by Quincy Jones, featuring many of the twentieth-century heroes of Black music like Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin and James Brown, as well as some rarely seen jazz artists like Thelonious Monk, Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Ahmad Jamal...

Three documents were discovered by Aretha Franklin’s niece Sabrina Owens - two handwritten wills from 2010 were found in a locked cabinet, and another from 2014 was found in a notebook underneath some couch cushions, the Associated Press reports. Franklin’s 2014 document requests that her son Kecalf Franklin serve as the estate’s personal representative - a […]

American soul singer Aretha Franklin has been awarded a posthumous Pulitzer prize for her "her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more than five decades". She becomes the 12th musician, and first female performer, to be given the special citation - joining the likes of Bob Dylan, Scott Joplin and John Coltrane. CNN...