Throughout history, many first ladies have used fashion to channel their political power, show solidarity with the public, ...

Here we present the Top 10 in our long-running Detroit's 100 Greatest Songs project, the culmination of voting by thousands of fans and 80-plus area music experts, who together made more than ...

Aretha Franklin prior to giving a last-minute stand-in performance at the 40th Annual Grammy Awards. Steve Azzara/Getty Images ...

Aretha Franklin held her Grammy Award on March 14, 1972. Walt Disney Television/Getty Images At the 1972 Grammys, Aretha Franklin wore a head-to-toe orange ensemble.

Aretha Franklin was born in Tennessee but was raised up in Detroit singing gospel at her father’s church. Her long career had peaks and valleys, but she always found ways to reinvent her sound. Her ...

Musical pioneers like Louis Armstrong, Aretha Franklin, Grandmaster Flash and more created timeless music while using it to speak out about issues affecting Black Americans. Louis Armstrong and jazz ...

When Aretha Franklin saw him in a television ... Mr. White, Mr. Banks said, was a private, disciplined man, fastidious in his dress and ... who in the early ’80s was cast as the ...

Decades before MTV’s “TRL,” BET’s “106 & Park” and NPR’s “Tiny Desk,” to name just a few, Soul Train was chugga-chugging along, shaping ideas of cool across dance, fashion and ...

A will of Aretha Franklin's found hidden under sofa cushions after her untimely passing due to pancreatic cancer in 2018 is valid, a jury rules. This ends nearly five years of legal contention ...

Franklin died in 2018 after a six-decade career in the music business, leaving behind a legacy that included over 75 million record sales, 17 Top 10 hits, and 112 charted Billboard singles.