MPR News: Museum celebrates church hats and the women who wear them
Photographs of women in church hats by Walter Griffin hang inside the Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery in Minneapolis on Friday, Dec. 21, 2018. When it comes to staying informed ...
When you put on a hat, it gives you height, and it gives you power. In the African American community, especially among women in the church, hats are far more than accessories they are crowns, worn ...
WTEN: ‘It was all through faith:’ New York State Museum showcases church hats of Great Migration women
‘It was all through faith:’ New York State Museum showcases church hats of Great Migration women
Now that spring is here, black women will walk into their houses of worship with their heads held high, dressed in their Sunday best. In the black church, hats have an important religious and cultural ...
WNYT NewsChannel 13: Museum seeks hats Black women wore to church for exhibit
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 ...
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.
MSN: Church hats and crowns of grace, a legacy of power, pride, and style
Church hats and crowns of grace, a legacy of power, pride, and style
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 ...