AS I watched the celebrations for Black History Month, Reggae Month, and the birthday of musical icon Bob Marley, I observed a missing factor. If the Rastafari movement is the largest black ...

I’ve been connected to Israel from when I was a child. Through my father, my mother, we have a strong belief in the history. If you’ve heard of my father…you’ve heard of Exodus….We are strongly ...

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 ...

Music and religion have long made for a potent mix. In the case of reggae and the Rastafari religion, the links go deep, as a new compilation from the Soul Jazz label makes clear. Rastafari: The ...

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - With its wooden shacks on a beach shaded by palm trees, Ivory Coast's "Rasta Village" could be anywhere in West Africa -- if it wasn't for all the dreadlocks, Ethiopian flags and ...

Luke Tress is The Times of Israel's New York correspondent. NEVE EREZ, West Bank — Noam Cohen’s one-story home in Neve Erez overlooks Jerusalem, the Dead Sea and the Jordan Valley. The front door is ...

This week’s cover story, “Rasta Redmon,” explores the cultural and musical connections between the indigenous people of Arizona and Jamaican reggae artists, told through the story of Hopi reggae ...

Alborosie has managed to shoot the precarious gap between the traditional Jamaican reggae of Burning Spear and Black Uhuru and the modern, Americanized version of artists like Stick Figure and SOJA, ...

How did a kid from West Texas become known as Rasta Stevie? Durango has many colorful characters. Rasta Stevie is certainly one of them. Rasta Stevie moved to Durango in 1996, and right away, started ...