DETROIT (AP) — 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 ...

The Church Hat Collections of Veda Rawlings and Ellen Berts" is an exhibition of Black church lady hats. Many colors, styles ...

But a concern in my own life as a Black Christian woman is examining how the church can help Black women remove the damaging mantle of the “strong Black woman.” ...

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 ...

Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration ceremony took place in Vatican City earlier today. Many were in attendance, and as tradition goes — when a person is in the presence of a pope, they dress in black ...

During the Civil Rights Era, what many Black folks wore to church is also what they wore to protest, from Black men in three-piece suits and dress shoes to Black women with white dresses or dress ...

They gained popularity in the 1900s, back when many Black women were working in someone else’s home as domestic workers and nannies and didn’t get to dress up that often. Sunday church ...

While little girls are wearing pastel dresses and ruffle socks, the church mothers are wearing their crowns, in the form of decadent church hats. Easter is peak fashion in the name of Resurrection.

Tonight, Philyaw shares her Brief But Spectacular take on black women sex and the black church. DEESHA PHILYAW, Writer: I grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, and I grew up being sent to church.

Culture writer Taylor Crumpton says fashionable outfits and colorful hats are how to catch God's eye at Easter Sunday services. She shares with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe how Black families dress for Easter.

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 ...