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 ...

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

After the publication of the popular book, “Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats” in 2000, two of the Miami Valley’s most energetic Sharons — Sharon Howard, who was working for WDTN-TV at ...

Vanilla Beane, whose radiant hats topped the heads of legions of African American women at church, weddings and funerals in the District for half a century, earning her the title of “D.C.’s Hat Lady,” ...

Big, beautiful elaborate hats bejeweled with imported crystals that dance in the sunlight streaming through stained glass windows. Fancy creations abloom with iridescent plumes, oversized roses and ...

Explore a tradition among African American women of wearing hats to worship, from the simple to the simply out-of-this-world. Faith and fashion fuse in photographs of thirty African American women ...