A newly acquired mask in the African art collection at the New Orleans Museum of Art is a fantastic facemask that is made and used within the central Pende regions of Zaire. Characterized by ...

A district court judge dismissed a Boston-area man's complaint that Whole Foods Markets Group's mask policy violated his religious beliefs, with claims that masks "are part of a satanic ritual" and ...

Heritage is both natural and cultural. The removal of Tanzania’s great Brachiosaurus skeleton and the extraction of ritual masks and reliquaries from Mali, Gabon and Cameroon reveal a pattern: ...

Since the pandemic began, it has become almost a ritual at Peninsula School Board meetings: a crowd of anti-mask activists lining up at the lectern for an hour-long, tag-team display of anger and ...