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It is his hair — winding locks he considers a measure of his Rastafarian faith — that makes him a threat, according to Virginia Department of Corrections Operating Procedure No. 864.1.
For devoted fans of influential Jamaica-born Rastafarian dub poet Mutabaruka, his new “Black Attack” album is right on time — it's Muta’s first release in 14 years.
A Rastafarian inmate who spent more than 10 years in segregation for refusing to cut his hair said fears for his health and safety led him to give in last month. Ras-Solomon Tafari, 35, set to be ...
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 ...
Rastafarian Inmate Refuses to Cut Hair, Spends Ten Years in Isolation By Caroline Black May 11, 2010 / 7:17 AM EDT / CBS News ...
"He had been growing his locks for 20 years, and he’s a devout Rastafarian," Attorney Arnold Lizana said about his client, Myrie. "He felt like, again, he has to turn his back on his faith." ...
A Rastafarian incarcerated in federal prison should have been able to develop a record for his claims that he was denied a diet that accords with his religion, the Third Circuit has ruled.
A Rastafarian man who refused to shave off his beard or cut his hair to comply with Jiffy Lube's employee grooming policy can take his religious discrimination case to trial, the state's highest ...
A Jamaican-born Rastafarian musician from Oregon, Beadle, 46, was on a cross-country trip when he was pulled over in Madison County, Miss., on the morning of March 7, 2017, Mississippi Today ...
A former Rastafarian inmate is challenging a court ruling that he isn't entitled to monetary compensation after his head was forcibly shaved at a Louisiana prison in violation of his religious ...
An alleged dispute at a Rastafarian church in Yuba County led to a shootout Tuesday morning as two sheriff’s deputies exchanged gunfire with a suspect inside a Dobbins-area home. The suspect was ...
“My mom’s a secret Rastafarian,” her daughter Jenna says in an interview scheduled to air on the Oprah Winfrey Show Tuesday, “so [she plays] Bob Marley” around the house.