Rasta
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Several months later, the affair took a bizarre turn after his beloved "Rasta Bambi", a doe he had lovingly raised on his farm in Mali, went missing.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
Taking the Rasta name Jabari Muata Ta Seti, he returned to Bradford and worked as a voluntary counsellor, also setting up the anti-drugs charity Black Against Crack in the city in the mid-1990s.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
A Polaris ticket includes priority boarding and baggage check, onboard amenities from Therabody and Saks Fifth Avenue and in-lounge shower suites, said United spokesperson Anoushah Rasta.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025
According to a now-outdated Postmates menu, Flavor Crazy sold Caribbean-infused soul food dishes, such as "flavor-crazy wings," macaroni and cheese, "Rasta Pasta," snapper and seafood rice.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2022
It was a Rasta cap: the one Grover always wore.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
“But I think he is proud — well, Rastas don’t feel proud — but he has expressed to me that he feels very irie about what I’m doing with my work.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
Iyah V, a Rastafarian leader who sits on the nation’s nascent licensing authority, summed up concerns by pointing to the many suits and relatively few Rastas at the conference.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2016
“This is an issue that Rastas have died for,” Hutton explains with a sudden seriousness.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2015
"It was not at all the way it was described to me. It's not a Rastafarian town. It's 100,000 Ethiopians and only a few hundred Rastas living on the outskirts," she says.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2014
We were emissaries from the place the Rastas called Babylon Kingdom and we were free to travel anywhere in the world we desired.
From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2013
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