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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...