A hat is more than just a hat. It’s “an expression of black culture that embodies self-expression, dignity, identity, tradition and respect,” says the manager of the Northwest African ...

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 ...

Black women will never stop wearing hats, whether to church or out and about. This year the church hat style, according to Robinson Davis, will be fascinators emulating the British headband aesthetic.

When it comes to breaking out the Sunday best, no one does it like beautiful Black women ready to worship on Easter Sunday. Church serves as not only a place of refuge and worship for many African ...

For Black women, their church crowns hold meaning beyond Scripture. They gained popularity in the 1900s, back when many Black women were working in someone else’s home as domestic workers and ...

Hammonds — who also grew up in church watching the Sunday parade of fashion — said Black women wear hats to demonstrate not only social status, but creativity and individuality. “When it ...

The tradition of church hats dates to the 1960s South, a time when Sunday was the one day Black women could fully express themselves in public, stepping out in their finest attire, including a ...

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