In this special bonus episode of the State of Black Music podcast, our co-hosts discuss the feature film RESPECT, the biopic of the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin.  Grammy, Academy Award, and Golden Globe winner Jennifer Hudson joins the podcast to share on the making of the motion picture and her experience being hand-picked by the late Franklin to portray her 15 years prior to the film's release.

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