Their dreadlocked image and marijuana-laced mysticism are used to promote Jamaica as a tranquil tourist destination yet Rastafarians say they're treated as second-class citizens at home. The religion ...

ZOMBA, Malawi (Reuters) - Malawi's Rastafarians are cheering a court ruling that will allow their children to go to school with dreadlocks. Rastafarianism was upheld as a religion and banning ...

HAVANA, Cuba (IPS) – Long dreadlocks stuffed into trademark red, black, green and yellow tams (knitted caps), which sometimes carry a symbol of an Afro-Cuban religion or even a US flag, Bob Marley ...

Hundreds of Rastafarians came together last month in Jamaica, the birthplace of the movement, for the weeklong Rastafari Global Reasoning 2003. The official motto for the worldwide meeting, which ...

A group of Rasta’s on Wednesday embarked on a big walk along Haile Selassie Road in Blantyre to raise funds for the roofing of their worship temple and the construction of a new primary school block ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Attorney-at-law Marcus Goffe is upset that members of the Rastafari community who plant ganja for sacramental purposes are still being subjected to what he calls constant ...

Though dreadlocks and reggae music are the familiar symbols of the Rastafari religion, the lesser-known style of eating its followers adhere to is more telling of the belief system. To stay healthy ...

Bob Marley used to drink an Irish moss-based concoction every morning. This red seaweed, which does not exactly evoke the Caribbean, was introduced to Jamaica in the 17th century by Irish immigrant ...

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 the red, green, ...