Aretha Franklin Funeral

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The Queen of Soul's funeral caused some controversy.

Here we are on Monday, Labor Day, and Ariana Grande is still making news. In this case, we have the star of Netflix’s Luke Cage star, Mike Colter, saying he sorry for a tweet he posted about Miss Grande seemingly getting groped at Aretha Franklin’s funeral. Grande, as the whole world knows by now, performed Aretha’s classic […]

ATLANTA (AP) — A fiery, old-school pastor who is under fire for saying black America is losing “its soul” at Aretha Franklin’s funeral stands firm by his words with the hope critics can understand his perspective. Rev. Jasper Williams Jr. told The Associated Press in a phone interview Sunday he felt his sermon was appropriate […]

  DETROIT (AP) — The bishop who officiated Aretha Franklin’s funeral has apologized to Ariana Grande for how he touched her onstage and a joke he made about her name. Bishop Charles H. Ellis III led Franklin’s funeral and awkwardly greeted Grande after she performed “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman.” Images of […]

Yesterday, Aretha Franklin was laid to rest with a beautiful funeral that was broadcast all over the world. However, in the day of social media, there is bound to be controversy. The bishop who officiated the funeral, Bishop Charles H. Ellis III, is now publicly apologizing to singer Ariana Grande for a joke about her name and […]

Aretha Franklin was laid to rest today in an epic, hours-long funeral that featured dynamic speakers and soul-stirring performances. It was a fitting end to the reign of the Queen of Soul who was known both for her civil rights activism and her amazing voice and legendary career. Only Aretha Franklin could have a funeral […]

DETROIT (AP) — Aretha Franklin’s body has been transported from a Detroit museum that hosted two days of public viewings of the Queen of Soul, the next step in a journey leading up to her funeral on Friday. Workers carefully moved Franklin’s polished bronze casket from the rotunda of the Charles H. Wright Museum of […]