By Malaika Jabali· Updated September 13, 2022
The FBI was really not putting RESPECT on Aretha’s name!
According to a 270-page document, the Federal Bureau of Investigation spent years monitoring the ‘Queen of Soul’ Aretha Franklin, “trying to gauge how involved she was with the civil rights movement, communism and the Black Power movement,” NPR reports.
As per NPR, Franklin:
was monitored ahead of several performances and attendances she made for civil
