Rastafarian deejay Ras Murdak aka VikingsRasta believes that there are wisdoms and lessons that black people have inherited ...

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Damon Landor is an observant of the Rastafarian religion. A tenet of the religion frowns upon cutting one’s hair, ...

Photo: Getty Images North America The Supreme Court will hear the case of a Black man whose dreadlocks were shaved off by ...

Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to take up the case of Damon Landor, a dedicated Rastafarian. Landor filed a lawsuit based ...

WASHINGTON (NYT) — The Supreme Court said Monday that it would decide whether a Rastafarian man may sue prison guards in Louisiana who shaved off his dreadlocks in seeming violation of an appeals ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Divers searched a section of Lake Tahoe on Monday for one person still missing after seven ...

Landor, an adherent of the Rastafari religion, even carried a copy of a ruling by the appeals court in another inmate’s case ...

Damon Landor says his religious rights were violated under a law called the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons ...

While a lower court condemned the actions of the prison guards, it determined that Landor could not sue them for damages because the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 ...

The justices will decide whether prison officials can face monetary damages for violating the religious beliefs of an inmate.