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 ...

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Verse 15 from chapter 11 in Paul's first letter to the Corinthians reads that a woman must cover her head in order to pray or prophesy. It's a belief shared by the 13 women who posed for this project.

, whose photographs of African-American women have been displayed in the Smithsonian Institution's Anacostia Museum, Atlanta's High Museum, Mobile Museum of Art and many others, will speak Friday, ...

There was a day not that long ago when many women wore hats to church. This weekend, that tradition will be honored in a special program at a Topeka church. The 12th annual “100 Women in White” ...

Women wearing hats still is a fairly common scene in African-American churches across the country. And they are not simple hats -- they are showy and stylish. Some are original designs. They have come ...

Hats, once a necessity for all women, may be returning to the list of must-have accessories. More than 1 billion were sold in the United States in 2004, up 15% from the preceding year and well over a ...

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 ...