When Aretha Franklin sought a second metro Detroit home as a creative sanctuary and ... lining the walls with photos and memorabilia from the singer’s storied life in music and civil rights.

When Aretha Franklin sought a second metro Detroit home as a creative sanctuary and ... lining the walls with photos and memorabilia from the singer’s storied life in music and civil rights.

Nekesa Mumbi Moody, global entertainment and lifestyles editor, New York, and Ed White, reporter, Detroit, collaborated on a scoop that three wills purported to be written by the late “Queen of Soul” ...

Aretha Franklin was my dear, dear friend, my homegirl, and I loved her a lot. From seeing her as a baby singing and playing at the piano at her father’s home, to her giving a rousing performance ...