The 28th Annual JazzReggae Festival at UCLA continued Monday with Reggae Day, which presented a strong focus on traditional reggae music and Rastafarian culture. Posters of Bob Marley, T-shirts ...

Listen to Rastafarian songs "Nybingi Medley" and "King So High" Visit the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Web site for purchase and more information Jake Homiak is the curator for Discovering ...

As a teacher of Afro-Caribbean history and culture, Senior Lecturer of Africana Studies and Linguistics Iyabo F. Osiapem noticed that her students at William & Mary took quite an interest in Bob ...

During a seven-year stint in federal prison, a man who goes simply by “Judah” found something that people around the world chase after their whole lives (and still might never find): peace and meaning ...

Far far across the valley comes the sound of an almighty procession Zion bound. Chanting chanting Iyabinghi drums yunder and yant the call to redemption, Babylon doomed to fall, Iyudgmant to come ...

Back in 2001 and fresh from Shizuoka, a city near Japan’s picturesque Mt. Fuji, Yuichi Iida found himself standing in Manhattan’s Union Square, transfixed on a Rastafarian banging an African drum. The ...

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 ...

Hempress Sativa is one of the most dynamic and talented performers – male or woman – in reggae music today. Currently at work on her sophomore album following her extremely impressive debut ...

Cedella and Julian Marley, two of Bob Marley's children are supporting the call for a Rastafari Rights and Justice Act in ...

Reflection of Africa in the eye of Empress Bless. Photo by author. A famous scene in the landmark 1977 series Roots shows the moment when language is recognised as being significant in the fight for ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At a time when western society is becoming increasingly sensitive to appropriation of Native American cultures in sports (Washington Redskins) and pop music ...