Gov. Hochul is backing a statewide ban on wearing masks in public, and in some ways, we understand why. But there are too ...

Kathy Hochul is mulling a partial mask ban ... anti-masking laws were effectively used in the past to combat the Ku Klux Klan’s hooded menace. New York’s ban originally went on the books ...

Kathy Hochul Thursday of dragging her feet ... mask bans were put in place across the country to expose and arrest Ku Klux Klan members who terrorized and killed black residents.

Now, New York's governor, Kathy Hochul, is considering outlawing ... Luther King Jr. "did not hide their faces," but "the [Ku Klux] Klan" did, Adams added. A distrust of masks as tools for ...