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“Being black means being beautiful. It also means struggles, and it also means pain. And every black woman knows of that struggle, that pain…There is so much we need to find. Like more purpose in life, and more self-love. That must come first. It certainly had to come first for me.” -Aretha Franklin, Esquire 1973 Listen to “Young, Gifted, And Black” here: Aretha.lnk.to/YGABSong | Aretha Franklin

REMEMBERING ARETHA: For more than five decades, Aretha Franklin's voice belted out songs of change, joy, and pain. We take a look back at the woman known as "the Queen of Soul." | WNEMTV5news