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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 ...

We’ve rounded up some of our favorite hats that are sure to make a statement at Easter Sunday service. For centuries, fashion has had a special relationship with the Black church as parishioners use ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- Dr. Seuss' character Bartholomew Cubbins and his 500 hats have nothing on Paula Ellis. For Ellis, a bishop's daughter and retired Kent County sheriff's deputy, wearing hats -- or ...

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 ...

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. The museum and the Rapp Road Historical Association are teaming up to collect and preserve the stories ...

Retired from 40-year career with The Muskegon Chronicle sales department. Widowed after a long and happy marriage, with three daughters and five grandchildren. Oversee the youth auxiliary at Greater ...

We all know the women in church whose hat collections should be in a museum somewhere. They sit in the front pews with their stunning toppers on display as they praise the Lord in their absolute ...

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 ...