GENIUS: ARETHA

SET VISU The third season of the National Geographic anthology series brings the late Queen of Soul's musical artistry and social activism to the screen BY JEWEL WICKER We serve the queen. For Parks, it was listening to the singer's records and learning trendy dances alongside her aunts. Cynthia Erivo, who portrays the late singer in the series, says her earliest memory of the icon was listening to Franklin's music in the back seat of her mom's car on the way to school.