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.
Poet Safiya Sinclair grew up in Montego Bay, Jamaica, in a devout Rastafari family. Her father, a reggae singer, ruled the home, dictating what to eat, how to dress and who she could or couldn't ...
An Orthodox Rastafarian woman had a “piece of her taken away” when she was forced to reveal her dreadlocks to police after being falsely accused of stealing $7 worth of groceries, the Daily News has ...
To Rastafarians, Empress Menen of Ethiopia is Mother Mary. The wife of His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Haile Selassie I, was a devout believer in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and a benevolent figure ...
Sinclair grew up in a devout Rasta family in Jamaica where women were subservient. When she cut her dreadlocks at age 19, she became "a ghost" to... Poet Safiya Sinclair reflects on her Rastafari ...