(RNS) — On May 3, a Rastafarian serving a five-month sentence in in a Louisiana state prison filed a Supreme Court petition to seek damages after his jailers cut his dreadlocks, a hairstyle he said he ...

Blakk Rasta shared an update on Agradaa's life in prison after his visit to the Nsawam Female Prison, detailing her ...

Members of the Rastafari religion and political movement have for decades been persecuted and imprisoned for their ritualistic use of marijuana. But the tiny islands of Antigua and Barbuda recently ...

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. >> THIS ONE HERE IS THE ONE I LIKE THE BEST TODAY. >> TO MOST PEOPLE, IT IS MARIJUANA, BUT JESSE SCHWORCK CONSIDERS IT A RELIGIOUS SACRAMENT, PART OF THE WORSHIP AT THIS RASTAFARIAN ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The biopic "Bob Marley: One Love" has been a box-office hit in the United States and several other countries. The film, starring Kingsley Ben-Adir, is focused on the Rastafari legend’s ...

LIBERTA, Antigua (AP) — On the same ground where their enslaved ancestors were forced to plant sugar cane, Rastafari on this small island nation are now legally growing and ritualistically smoking ...

Damon Landor is an observant of the Rastafarian religion. A tenant of the religion frowns upon cutting one’s hair, specifically locs. The Supreme Court ruled Damon Landor, a practicing Rastafarian, ...