In the hills overlooking Montego Bay, Jamaica, a jungle of lush greenery and fruit trees including ackee, coconut and breadfruit, kiss the edge of a shallow river. Serene and filled with unspoiled ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CORRECTS YEAR - In this Jan. 4, 2014 photo, the ruins of a stone house where Rastafarian founding father Leonard P. Howell resided ...

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 Rootzfest organizers and High Times magazine have jointly announced that Rastafari Rootzfest will host the High Times 2015 Jamaican World Cannabis Cup in Negril on November 12th through 15th ...

Still from Karen Marks Mafundikwa’s The Price of Memory (2014) (screenshot by the author via YouTube) In the 1960s, Jamaican Rastafarians began petitioning the British Crown for reparations for ...

BULL BAY, Jamaica – 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Former KCRW DJ Roger Steffens edits the Beat magazine's annual Bob Marley Collector's Edition. The Associated Press report came out of the blue. Rita Marley, in Addis Ababa, said the body of her ...