FBI Surveilled Aretha Franklin’s Civil Rights Activism in the 60s and ’70s

*According to recently declassified FBI files on Aretha Fraklin, the government spent years surveilling the late singer’s civil rights activism in the 1960s and ’70s. The 270-page document shows that the agency monitored Franklin’s involvement with the civil rights movement, communism and the Black Power movement, NPR reports. According to PEOPLE, journalist Jen Dize obtained […]

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