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 ...

The exhibit, Her Crowning Glory: Hats of the African-American Community, was assembled by Purdue University's Black Cultural Center and is in conjunction with the musical production of "Crowns." The ...

By that time, she’d accumulated 150 hats, a number of them now hard-to-find vintage artifacts. Sunday, the Harrison Museum of African American Culture is opening “Extraordinary Crowns ...

Lesson number one: hats. Mother Shaw and her girlfriends ... to Africa and has been an important staple of the African-American community. "Crowns" is full of this sort of rich, layered meaning ...

Throw in a layer of anthropological rediscovery of ancestral roots in Africa ... joy. "Crowns" is an infectious show that just makes you feel good. And for that, it deserves a tip of the hat.

Gail Lowe, who created a 2000 Smithsonian exhibit on African-American faith ... Barbary's favorite hat style is one that is open without a crown. "Because I wear my hair in a French roll, a ...

The only person who'd touch a woman's hat is someone who doesn't wear hats," she says in the new book "Crowns: Portraits ... which explores the African-American tradition of wearing elegant ...

It has sold more than 110,000 copies. He started the Crowns project by observing African-American women's tradition of wearing hats to Sunday church services. “My mother was an evangelist ...

To others a crown is a hat, but not just any hat. Skylight Music Theater’s production of Crowns: A Gospel Musical is about the African American tradition of wearing flamboyant and ornate hats to ...

In the African American community, especially among women in the church, hats are far more than accessories they are crowns, worn with pride, reverence, and tradition. To wear a church hat is to ...

REPORTER: THAT’S WHERE THESE MAGNIFICENT HATS PAINT THE SCENES ... musicals into specifically African American stories," said Sarah Ashley Cain."Crowns" begins Feb. 11 and runs through ...