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Rastafari gain sacramental rights to marijuana in Antigua and Barbuda, celebrate freedom of worship
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 11 months agoOn the same ground where their enslaved ancestors were forced to plant sugar cane, Rastafari on this...
Q&A: Antigua and Barbuda prime minister on granting Rastafari their sacramental marijuana rights
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 11 months agoST. JOHN'S, Antigua (AP) — The Caribbean island nation of Antigua and Barbuda recently granted...
In ‘Bob Marley: One Love’ film, what's his faith? And why is marijuana deemed holy to the Rastafari?
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe biopic “Bob Marley: One Love” has been a box-office hit in the United States and several other...
Why Rastafari smoke marijuana for sacramental reasons
theGrio via AOL· 11 months agoAntigua and Barbuda recently became one of the first Caribbean nations to grant Rastafari official...
Safiya Sinclair’s Escape Through Beauty
Harper's Bazaar via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThe poet and author of the memoir "How to Say Babylon" explains how the pursuit of glamour helped her break free from a Rastafari childhood in Jamaica.
Rastafarians gathering for the 131st birthday of Emperor Haile Selassie are still grappling with his...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 9 months agoRastafarians drum and sing during a special prayer and worship meeting at Menengai forest in Kenya....
Why Safiya Sinclair cut her dreadlocks and wrote a memoir of pain and poetry
LA Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSafiya Sinclair was raised to be Rastafari; instead, she became a poet. Why it took her more than a decade to write the lyrical memoir 'How to Say Babylon'
Their son was banned from school for 3 years because of his dreadlocks
CNN via Yahoo News· 11 months agoFor years, Alli Nansolo grappled with whether to cut his son’s dreadlocks or not. Although it is not...
‘Bob Marley: One Love’ Exclusive Images And How Kingsley Ben-Adir Recalls Tapping Into The ‘Deeply...
Blavity via Yahoo News· 5 months agoBob Marley fans will soon get a more intimate glimpse into the life of the renowned musician. The...
Book Review: Poet recalls stormy life growing up Rastafari in Jamaica and her struggle to break free
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 7 months agoIt is unusual to find one as powerful and disturbing as Safiya Sinclair’s debut memoir, “How to Say...