To Rastafarians, Empress Menen of Ethiopia is Mother Mary. The wife of His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Haile Selassie I, was a devout believer in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and a benevolent figure ...

Filmmaker Bianca Nyavingi Brynda explores the roots of the Rastafari culture from a female perspective, examining the movement's various incarnations in Jamaica, Guyana, South America and Canada.

MINOT, N.D. | A practicing Rastafarian has filed a lawsuit against a North Dakota county social-services agency to get her name off a child-abuse registry. Judge Todd Cresap heard arguments Tuesday in ...

On February 9, after a seven-month wait, Jamaica's Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn recommended that no criminal charges be brought against the policewoman accused of cutting the ...

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 ...

There are some painful relics of Jamaica’s colonial history—many of them related to human rights—that its citizens would like to feel that they have put behind them. Quite apart from antiquated, ...