He ain’t no preacher. How can he be a preacher and he preaching the gospel and she’s singing the blues? Back in that day and time, oh, how they talked about him. Everybody had thumbs down on C.L.

As a 21-year-old Aretha Franklin worked on her singing voice in New York during the summer of 1963, her father, Rev. C. L. Franklin, raced to finish the final touches on the planned March on ...

As a child, Aretha "Re" Franklin (Skye Dakota Turner) lives with her domineering father, the Rev. C.L. Franklin (Forest Whitaker), in Detroit, along with her siblings and their grandmother, Mama ...