The first time I left Jamaica, I was seventeen. I’d graduated from high school two years before, and while trying to get myself to college I’d been scouted as a model. And so I found myself at the ...

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 ...

FILE - Jamaican Reggae singer Bob Marley performs in front of an audience of 40,000 during a festival concert of Reggae in Paris, France, July 4, 1980. The biopic Bob Marley: One Love has been a box ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By LUIS ANDRES HENAO (Associated Press) LIBERTA, Antigua (AP) — On the same ground where their enslaved ancestors were forced to plant sugar cane, Rastafari ...

Poet Safiya Sinclair grew up in Montego Bay, Jamaica, in a devout Rastafari family. Her father, a reggae singer, ruled the home, dictating what to eat, how to dress and who she could or couldn't ...

A new educational initiative aimed at giving Rastafari communities a greater role in shaping Jamaica’s cultural tourism product while exposing inner-city youth to opportunities in the “blue economy” ...

This rare event — opening a tabernacle made of wooden poles and roofed with iron sheets — illustrates the Rastafari's expanding ranks in Kenya, according to members of this congregation. Kenya only ...

Barbados High Court has dismissed a constitutional challenge to the countrys’ Sacramental Cannabis Act, ruling that restrictions governing the use of cannabis by Rastafarians do not unlawfully ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — The biopic “Bob Marley: One Love” has been a box-office hit in the United States and several other countries. The film, starring Kingsley Ben-Adir, is focused on the Rastafari ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The biopic “Bob Marley: One Love” has been a box-office hit in the United States and several other countries. The film, starring Kingsley Ben-Adir, is focused on the Rastafari legend’s ...