“Those face masks are prohibited on SEPTA ... I say this to city institutions: If you want to ban the shiesty because you’re uncomfortable with Black kids in public who have their faces ...

The “shiesty” nickname is taken from rapper ... Mr. Phillips, on the Philadelphia City Council, said the masks give Black America a bad name. “The mask is a part of criminal culture; it ...

The head covering in question, also called a “shiesty,” is popular among fans ... “It began to be used as a way to prosecute young, Black kids in Washington, D.C. who were wearing ski masks, and ...

The ban was met with a lot of criticism from people warning it will disproportionately target Black ... Ski masks are also called “Shiestys” after Memphis rapper Pooh Shiesty popularized ...

Police say the ski masks are known on the street as Shiesty’s, nicknamed after Memphis ... it “criminalizes and marginalizes young Black men,” said council member Jamie Gauthier on X ...

Following a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1980s and 1990s, states and municipalities banned the wearing of hoods and masks in connection with anti-Black and antisemitic terrorism.

“Why don’t you take that Pooh Shiesty mask off,” Boosie tells his son in a video posted on Instagram, Complex reports. “You done had it on about two days. You out here in the ...

Boosie Badazz has revealed he doesn’t like the recent balaclava, or Pooh Shiesty mask, fashion trend and told his son he doesn’t want to see him wearing it for safety reasons. The 41-year ...