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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. When it comes to staying informed ...

Other well-known churches of the Great Migration in Albany include Greater St. John’s COGIC on Fourth Avenue; Macedonia ...

There was a day not that long ago when many women wore hats to church. This weekend, that tradition will be honored in a special program at a Topeka church. The 12th annual “100 Women in White” ...

Dorothy Height made a bold fashion statement with her fabulous church hats that sent messages from the pews to Congress.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...