Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rastafarians drum and sing during a special prayer and worship meeting at Menengai forest in Kenya. James Wakibia/SOPA ...

Members of the religious group would like to see New York’s cannabis legalization law revised to include accommodations for those who use the drug in worship. By Ashley Southall For Rastafarians like ...

Mosiyah Tafari banged on drums and chanted psalms with other Rastafarians in a ballroom where the smoke of frankincense mixed with the fragrant smell of cannabis—a substance his faith deems sacred.

Rastafarian priest Ras Moya attends festivities in Shashemene, Ethiopia to mark the 46th anniversary of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie's visit to Jamaica in 1966. After Selassie's visit, Jamaican ...

PAARL, South Africa – Against the craggy grey-blue Haweqwa mountain range surrounding the wine-growing area of South Africa's Western Cape, a distinctive wooden structure has risen. Wood planks have ...

Cincinnati native Ras Yeremiah Tafari “caught fire” in 1977 when a friend gave him some Rastafarian papers to read. “That was the first time that words spoke to me off of a piece of paper,” Tafari ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Rastafarians rallied Thursday in Jamaica’s capital to lay claim to a hilltop site where a founding father of the spiritual movement led a flourishing community in the 1940s ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Thousands of Bob Marley fans and Rastafarians gathered in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, yesterday for the start of weeks of festivities to mark the 60th anniversary of ...

When Julian Whitely lived in New York he was a go-to for legendary musician Bob Marley and his band The Wailers. Recalling his time as a fixer for the group, he remembers being asked to do all manner ...