AS I watched the celebrations for Black History Month, Reggae Month, and the birthday of musical icon Bob Marley, I observed a missing factor. If the Rastafari movement is the largest black ...

Actor, film-maker, activist and the granddaughter of Bob and Rita Marley, Donisha Prendergast is currently in India where she conducted sessions at Goa Sunsplash — India’s biggest reggae and sound ...

With its wooden shacks on a beach shaded by palm trees, Ivory Coast's "Rasta Village" could be anywhere in West Africa -- if it wasn't for all the dreadlocks, Ethiopian flags and murals of the Lion of ...

If Las Vegas were taking bets on which band will drop an album the world will soon be talking about – and singing, skanking, and otherwise shaking their booty to – an album that will quickly catapult ...

As 2015 marks the 50 th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery march, many Americans will understandably and fittingly concentrate their observance of Black History Month on the life and legacy of the ...

Luke Tress is The Times of Israel's New York correspondent. NEVE EREZ, West Bank — Noam Cohen’s one-story home in Neve Erez overlooks Jerusalem, the Dead Sea and the Jordan Valley. The front door is ...

Taking on the name Snoop Lion, the rapper embraces reggae on his new album and brings his Jamaican experience to the Toronto Film Festival in the form of a documentary. By Steve Bloom Call him Rasta ...

Rastafari is my doctrine and reggae is my tool, writes Tony Randon in his first blog, where he revea By Tony Randon Are you a Rastaman? This question was asked me one day by a woman who came into my ...

Who are the Rastafari? And who are the Rastafari to a secular American? The dread sporting Rastamen are more than nationalist enthused pot smokers. Rastafari expert, Dr. Merritt, will be discussing ...

Alborosie has managed to shoot the precarious gap between the traditional Jamaican reggae of Burning Spear and Black Uhuru and the modern, Americanized version of artists like Stick Figure and SOJA, ...