Paris Couture Week is back, reminding us that for years, Black women over 40 have embodied couture in ways that celebrate confidence, heritage, and timeless style.

The evolution of church hat style evolved from African cultures to fashion icons like Madam C.J. Walker and now to second-generation milliners, designers and makers of women’s hats, like Meeka ...

Detroit • A black pastor’s controversial eulogy at Aretha Franklin’s funeral laid bare before the world what black women say they have experienced for generations: sexism and inequality in ...

For women in the church, this can be done through a ritual of beauty and fashion practices to praise him. 1 Corinthians 11:15, reads, “But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her: for her ...

Crowns tells the story of six African-American women through the hats they wear to church. For Weekend Edition Saturday , Jeff Lunden reports on the stories behind the hats.

Church ladies and matrons of the church are icons of African American culture. These are the women who set the standard for proper decorum and provide guidelines to live by. Just consider their ...

While the “backbone of the church has been Black women almost from the very beginning,” historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. said, their roles have both been suppressed within the church and ...

The church’s Baltimore-Washington Conference is led by Bishop LaTrelle Easterling, a black woman. But he said female black preachers have to work twice as hard as male black preachers.

For many black women, the Rev. Jasper Williams’ eulogy reopened wounds and sternly reminded them that black churches remain male-dominated institutions, where old-school resistance to women ...