In the hills overlooking Montego Bay, Jamaica, a jungle of lush greenery and fruit trees including ackee, coconut and breadfruit, kiss the edge of a shallow river. Serene and filled with unspoiled ...

BULL BAY, Jamaica - The robed Rastafarian priest looked out over the turquoise sea off Jamaica's southeast coast and fervently described his belief that deliverance is at hand. Around him at the ...

BULL BAY, JamaicaBULL BAY, Jamaica — The robed Rastafarian priest looked out over the turquoise sea off Jamaica’s southeast coast and fervently described his belief that deliverance is at hand. Around ...

After years of applying chemical relaxers, hot comb pressing and other artificial straighteners, Black women across the country have been adopting a more natural way of trending to their tresses.

Former KCRW DJ Roger Steffens edits the Beat magazine's annual Bob Marley Collector's Edition. The Associated Press report came out of the blue. Rita Marley, in Addis Ababa, said the body of her ...

The idea behind Rootzfest was to produce an annual educational ganja festival that “celebrates Rastafari ideology, liberty and culture and tells the story of the Rastafari struggle for the ...

At sunrise we turn off the main highway, leaving the rocky, emerald coastline and winding through overgrown forests of cacao and sugarcane. For the past week, my buddy Johnny and I have kicked around ...

Reggae’s justice-driven Rastafari icons like Bob Marley would have us Americans thinking Jamaica’s cannabis policy would reflect their cannabis-friendly culture. In fact, it’s taken decades for the ...

A lot of people probably think first of Ziggy when it comes to reggae musicians named Marley these days, but it was Bob Marley, Ziggy’s father, who was the original international reggae star. Bob died ...

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 ...