A story of tradition, pride, and style as women celebrate church hats as crowns, carrying forward a legacy of beauty and ...

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 ...

MARION For years, beautiful, colorful hats have become a powerful fashion statement in churches across the country. Church hat designer Christopher Davis of Marion said the story of the tradition ...

The Black women’s church aesthetic has always centered hats and over time they have developed from patterned headwraps to elaborate wide-brimmed beauties.

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.

The New York State Museum is looking for hats Black women wore to church as part of an exhibit.

Italian journalist Lucetta Scaraffia, the former editor of a monthly women’s insert for the Vatican newspaper, has published a new novel highlighting women’s role in the Catholic Church and ...

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

But Cart'air is best known as Houston's premier boutique for women's hats — big hats, small hats, church hats, Western hats, fascinators, even fur hats, although it isn't often cold in Houston.