A new off-Broadway play is all about hats -- sort of. Crowns tells the story of six African-American women through the hats they wear to church. For Weekend Edition Saturday, Jeff Lunden reports on ...

Photographs of women in church hats by Walter Griffin hang inside the Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery in Minneapolis on Friday, Dec. 21, 2018.

More than 20 ladies from churches across West Tennessee donned hats of all colors, sizes and designs during the first “Hattitude” — an event celebrated April 15 by the Salem Missionary Baptist Church ...

They're bold, beautiful and carry cultural significance. The history of church hats runs deep and there is a new exhibit in Minneapolis celebrating the women who wear them. But the crown worn in ...

The New York State Museum is looking for hats Black women wore to church as part of an exhibit. The museum and the Rapp Road Historical Association are teaming up to collect and preserve the stories ...

The downtown branch of the Capital Area District Library will host a special presentation and book signing with renowned photographer Michael Cunningham on Sunday. Cunningham has produced the stunning ...

As a child growing up in Ebenezer Baptist Church, Angela Farris was in awe every Sunday as she watched a parade of women walk into the sanctuary adorned in brightly colored and elaborate church hats.

Her radiant hats, aimed mostly at African American women for use at church, weddings and funerals, were featured on postage stamps and in museum collections Vanilla Beane, whose radiant hats topped ...

Of all the areas where you can specialize in fashion, why hats? I naturally gravitated to the design of hats because of a strong heritage link in church. I’ve always seen strong, proud women come to ...

When it comes to breaking out the Sunday best, no one does it like beautiful Black women ready to worship on Easter Sunday. Church serves as not only a place of refuge and worship for many African ...

In this Friday, Feb. 1, 2019 file photo, Lucetta Scaraffia, editor in chief of “Women Church World” a monthly magazine distributed alongside the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, talks to ...