Brooklyn Rastafarians Commemorate Birthday of Emperor Haile Selassie I

There were no booming cannons or lavish banquets to celebrate the late emperor’s birthday, but as the sun dipped below the horizon on July 22, a serene scene unfolded on a vast lawn in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. As priests chanted psalms and offered prayers accompanied by the rhythmic beat of drums, elders of the Nyabinghi […]

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