MARION For years, beautiful, colorful hats have become a powerful fashion statement in churches across the country. Church hat designer Christopher Davis of Marion said the story of the tradition is ...

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.

Aretha Franklin stole the show on Inauguration Day with a bow-tied example of African American church hat culture. TIME examines the accessory and where it came from.Photos from the bookCrowns, by ...

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 ...