National Geographic, with Imagine Television Studios and Fox 21 Television Studios, announced today that Tony-, Emmy- and Grammy Award-winning Cynthia Erivo (“Harriet,” Broadway’s “The Color Purple”) will star as Aretha Franklin in the next installment of the Emmy-winning global anthology series Genius: Aretha. This upcoming season will be the first-ever, definitive and only … [Read more...] about National Geographic Taps Triple Threat Cynthia Erivo (“Harriet,” “The Color Purple”) as Aretha Franklin in GENIUS: ARETHA