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In terms of culturally significant headgear, there are baseball caps, cowboy hats, and then, in a realm all their own, there are Black women’s church crowns. What gives these splendid hats their ...

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.

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 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 ...

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

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - One group, set to honor their late matriarch Mercedes Hall Thomas, hosted their annual charitable luncheon in Tallahassee Sunday. The “Fine Hats and Bow Ties” luncheon was ...

There was a time not so long ago when Greenville ladies wore hats. To church, of course, but also to funerals and weddings, to every elegant gathering. Nearly every department store had a hat ...

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 ...