Aretha Franklin
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Thousands are expected to pour into Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History on Tuesday and Wednesday to pay their final respects to Aretha Franklin. Image: Aretha Franklin The setting for the public viewings could not be more fitting, according to Paula Marie Seniors, an associate professor of Africana studies at Virginia Tech.…
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Late singer Aretha Franklin inspired women to get some “respect” but she never saw herself as a “feminist heroine” even though the message in some of her most famous anthems empowered them to greatness. Former U.S. security officials issued scathing rebukes to President Donald Trump, admonishing him for yanking a top former spy chief’s security clearance…
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Aretha Franklin, the multiple Grammy award-winning singer whose career spanned seven decades, has succumbed to advanced pancreatic cancer, Local 10 News reported. The ‘Queen of Soul’ died at 9:50 a.m. in her Detroit home on Thursday, according to a report from the Associated Press. She was 76. Aretha’s publicist Gwendolyn Quinn confirmed she had been battling various undisclosed…
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