Rastafari
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The film, starring Kingsley Ben-Adir, is focused on the Rastafari legend’s story during the making of his 1977 album “Exodus” while leading up to a momentous concert in his native Jamaica.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 2024
She rebooted the project by interviewing her father, striving to understand his interest in Rastafari, working to untangle his personal motivations and how she came to inherit so much of his sensibility.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2023
Safiya Sinclair was raised to be Rastafari; instead, she became a poet.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2023
Browne also recalled how members of the Rastafari fed him “Ital” meals when his single mother, who had a mental illness, struggled to raise him and his siblings.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2023
Maybe you know that Rastafari is a small offshoot of the three main Abrahamic religions—Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
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