Aretha Franklin

Before the 2024 awards on Sunday, revisit a ceremony where the Recording Academy got it right, honoring the Beatles, Bobbie Gentry, Aretha Franklin and more.

How Radiohead, Whitney Houston, Meat Loaf and others made a point with punctuation.

In deciding a family dispute over her estate, a jury in Michigan ruled that a handwritten document found in a couch at Franklin’s home after her death represented her last wishes.

A trial starting on Monday is to decide whether either of two handwritten documents represents the singer’s last wishes. Her sons have battled in court for years over the question.

Franklin’s recently released F.B.I. file reflects an era when the agency spied not only on civil rights leaders, political organizers and suspected Communists, but also on popular Black entertainers involved in civil rights activism.

Our pop music critic remembers going to concerts with his mom, who died last year.

The new film “Respect” is one of three recent attempts to understand the artist. Only the one that focuses solely on her music comes close.

The Queen of Soul was constantly trying to bend the world to her will. 

Jennifer Hudson plays Aretha Franklin in a movie that follows many of the usual biographical beats but finds its own groove.

For the new biopic “Respect,” the singer researched the life of a yearslong friend and role model to better understand the circumstances that shaped her.