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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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 ...

When you put on a hat, it gives you height, and it gives you power. In the African American community, especially among women in the church, hats are far more than accessories they are crowns, worn ...

The church hat has remained a powerful symbol of faith, style, and tradition for generations, especially within the African American community, where it is seen not just as a piece of clothing but as ...

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 ...