For Week II of Black History Month 2022, here is a reading on Aretha Franklin with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. The Queen of Soul has been in the zeitgeist recently with the new biographical motion picture on her, Respect.
Have you seen the movie? I haven’t, but plan to. The producers assembled one hell of a cast, including the incomparable Audra McDonald as Aretha’s mother, Barbara Siggers Franklin, Forest Whitaker as her father, The Reverend C.L. Franklin, and Mary J Blige (!) as Dinah Washington. And last but certainly not least, Jennifer Hudson as Aretha herself.
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