Aretha at the New Orleans Jazz Festival in 1994.
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Aretha Franklin Was the Voice of America
And it was an astonishing voice, a voice that cut through a half-century of seismic change, a voice that demanded—and won—respect, love, justice, your body, your soul and much, much more. America, and the world, are mourning one of the great voices, and lives, of the 20th century.
Matty Karas, curator
August 17, 2018