A 270-page file shows "disgusting suspicion of the famed Black singer, her work, and activists around her,” according to journalist Jenn Dize. FBI surveillance files tracking Aretha Franklin’s racial ...

The FBI was keeping tabs on late singer Aretha Franklin's civil rights activism in the 1960s and '70s, according to documents recently declassified by a journalist using the Freedom of Information Act ...

*About a week or so ago we told you about the beef between Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick that seemed to come from out of nowhere. As we reported, Franklin told the Associated Press that Warwick ...

“Hope I die before I get old,” the Who sang at Woodstock as the 1960s hurtled to their end. Indeed, the decade and its echoes made premature legends of so many — Kennedy to King, Hendrix to Joplin to ...

Aretha Franklin, universally acclaimed as the “Queen of Soul” and one of America’s greatest singers in any style, died Thursday at her home in Detroit. She was 76. The cause was advanced pancreatic ...