The late Aretha Franklin’s family said Monday that it found an Atlanta pastor’s eulogy delivered at the Queen of Soul’s funeral last week to be offensive and distasteful. The eulogist, the Rev. Jasper Williams Jr., was criticized for a political address that described children being in a home without a father as "abortion…

"Though the pain, she gave us the joy, and said, ‘Let’s make love great again.'"Aretha Franklin - Credit: Express Newspapers / Stringer / GettyStars and fans have paid emotional tributes to Aretha Franklin during her funeral service in Detroit yesterday (August 31) at the Greater Grace Temple. “We will have never known a queen lik...

Aretha Franklin's funeral took place today -- it's being live streamed -- and during the ceremonies, Detroit mayor Mike Duggan gave a speech in which he announced that he'll be proposing to city council that the city's Chene Park be renamed to Aretha Franklin Park, as WXYZ reports.

Here's your chance to pay R-E-S-P-E-C-T to the late Aretha Franklin -- provided you can make it to Detroit in time. Eleven days after the legendary Queen Of Soul passed away, an open-casket public viewing is being held in the rotunda at Detroit's Charles H. Wright Museum Of African American History today, Tuesday, Aug. 28,…

Next Tuesday, an open casket public viewing will be held for Aretha Franklin in Detroit and two days later, on Thursday (8/30), there will be a memorial concert for the late singer at the Chene Park Amphitheater. TMZ has obtained a list of the artists scheduled to perform at the event. They include…