Members of a Rastafari farming community celebrate the Sabbath service, during COVID-19 pandmeic in Blue Mountains ST ANDREW, Jamaica (Reuters) -At a Rastafari farming community high up in the hills ...

(AP) The robed Rastafarian priest looked out over the turquoise sea off Jamaica’s southeast coast and fervently described his belief that deliverance is at hand. Around him at the sprawling Bobo ...

The idea behind Rootzfest was to produce an annual educational ganja festival that “celebrates Rastafari ideology, liberty and culture and tells the story of the Rastafari struggle for the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Marijuana has been pervasive but illegal in Jamaica for decades, consumed as a medicinal herb, puffed as a sacrament by Rastafarians and sung about in the island’s famed reggae ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Taking a deep draw on a pipe that glows with burning marijuana, reggae luminary Bunny Wailer gives a satisfied grin through a haze of aromatic smoke in his concrete yard painted in ...

Rastafari in the new millennium : Rastafari at the dawn of the fifth epoch / Michael Barnett -- Rastafari and the coming of age : the routinization of the Rastafari movement in Jamaica / Barry ...

Members of the Rastafari religion and political movement have for decades been persecuted and imprisoned for their ritualistic use of marijuana. But the tiny islands of Antigua and Barbuda recently ...

After years of applying chemical relaxers, hot comb pressing and other artificial straighteners, Black women across the country have been adopting a more natural way of trending to their tresses.

As a teacher of Afro-Caribbean history and culture, Senior Lecturer of Africana Studies and Linguistics Iyabo F. Osiapem noticed that her students at William & Mary took quite an interest in Bob ...

ST ANDREW, Jamaica (Reuters) -At a Rastafari farming community high up in the hills above Jamaica's capital, dreadlocked locals gather at the temple to worship and celebrate with Bible readings and ...