Max Romeo, the beloved reggae singer best known for recording such widely sampled songs as "War Ina Babylon" and "Chase the Devil" died in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica on Friday (April 11) at age 80.

When the architects of torture assert that enhanced interrogation is strictly “by the book,” it turns out that they mean this in a more literal sense than we might have imagined: the Bible, it turns ...

User-Created Clip June 1, 2014 2014-05-25T17:35:23-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/aa7/20140525173539002_hd.jpg"Rivers of Babylon" was by The Melodians. http ...

In June, 1948, the H.M.T. Empire Windrush docked in the Port of Tilbury, near London. Among its passengers were approximately eight hundred West Indian workers, mostly from Jamaica, who had come in ...

An ancient song renews the possibilities of singing in this world on fire: how we can, how we will. According to rabbinic legend, the Second Temple in Jerusalem was not built with any tools that could ...

There’s a scene in Babylon, the 1980 cult classic considered by many to be the great U.K. reggae movie, where a bunch of Brixton residents gather together in a rehearsal space. It’s the meeting place ...

Decorated organ virtuoso and choir director Douglas Lawrence leads the Australian Chamber Choir in a program of music inspired by Psalm 137. Found in the Christian Old Testament’s Book of Psalms is a ...

(MENAFNEditorial) On the anniversary of America's independence, the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass made a biblical Psalm – Psalm 137 – best known for its opening line, 'By the Rivers of ...

Max Romeo, the beloved reggae singer best known for recording such widely sampled songs as “War Ina Babylon” and “Chase the Devil” died in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica on Friday (April 11) at age 80.