How To Stream — And Fully Appreciate — Aretha Franklin’s Funeral

^{Watch or listen to the funeral live on Friday morning at 10 a.m. via NPR.org.}

Since Aretha Franklin’s death on Aug. 16, the world has memorialized the soul icon in fitting fashion — as a Queen. Her voice “captured the experience of living through profound change and showed how to preserve integrity in its wake,” as Ann Powers wrote, an example that can feel desperately absent in these times of turmoil, but one that remains just a memory away.

Franklin is on the cusp of being honored as American royalty. At 10 a.m. ET on Friday, Aug. 31 in Detroit, more than two dozen people — including heads of state, city and country, a record mogul, and music legends of nearly every description — will take the altar of the Greater Grace Temple at her homegoing to speak, sing and pray in honor of the gift that Franklin so readily shared with the world.