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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 ...

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica – His Imperial Highness (HIH) Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie, Haile Selassie’s grandson, of Ethiopia and his spouse, Princess Saba Kebede were recently in Jamaica to participate i ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — On August 27, 1975, news broke that Ethiopia’s Emperor Haile Selassie I had died in that country. His demise came one year after he was overthrown by the military in the East ...

NEW YORK (RNS) — July 23 marks the 131st anniversary of the birth of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, whom the Rasta faith considers the incarnation of God. NEW YORK (RNS) — After the sun set over ...

With the 60th anniversary of Emperor Haile Selassie I’s state visit to Jamaica approaching, singer Joseph Benaiah revisits His Majesty is Coming, a classic song dedicated to the Ethiopian monarch. The ...

It may be news to some, but reggae music owes a great debt of gratitude to the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I. For decades, Carlyle McKetty and Sharon Gordon of the Coalition to Preserve ...

In 1966, Haile Selassie the Emperor of Ethiopia made his first and only visit to Jamaica - home of the Rastafari movement which revered him. Alex Last has been speaking to two Jamaicans who witnessed ...

Sept. 12 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1609, Henry Hudson discovered what is now known as the Hudson River. In 1940, near Montignac, France, the prehistoric Lascaux cave paintings, believed to ...

Haile Selassie I was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He rose to power as Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia (Enderase) for Empress Zewditu from 1916. He is widely considered a defining figure ...