Tangent. A ski mask ordinance was introduced at an Atlanta city council meeting on Monday, according to documents obtained by the Atlanta Press Collective. The ordinance would make it illegal to ...

"I chose [the mask] because it had my favorite words on it, ‘Jesus Loves Me,’ and it made me feel safe when I went to school," Lydia, who was in third grade at the time, said, adding that she ...

Lydia Booth, now 11, was told she could not wear her “Jesus Loves Me” mask in Simpson County, Miss., schools. Now, the school district has agreed to change its policy and allow students to ...

In May 2023, someone in a ski mask shot and killed a 15-year-old on a public bus. In July, an attacker in a ski mask and body armor killed five people and injured two children in the city’s ...

Philadelphia City Council’s ski mask ban is just the next in a series of tough-on-crime policies that disproportionately affect Black and brown youth.