Church hats symbolize pride, identity, and tradition in African American culture, blending fashion with heritage and ...

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NEWS10 aired its annual Honoring Black History special on February 25. You can watch the whole special, which features the “Fashion and Faith: Hats of the Great Migration” exhibit, in the video player ...

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 ...

Dorothy Height made a bold fashion statement with her fabulous church hats that sent messages from the pews to Congress. Height's elaborate church hats were a regal symbol of her unique power and ...

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 ...

The first “Women Who Wear Hats” exhibit is ready and waiting for visitors to enjoy and explore the memories and meanings of ...

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 ...