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The life of the King of Reggae Bob Marley will be brougt to the big screen for the first time in 2024. "Bob Marley: One Love" is produced by Ziggy and Cedella Marley, the children of the legend as well as his widow Rita. “King Richard” director Reinaldo Marcus Green helmed the biopic. SNIP Paramount Pictures unveiled Thursday (Jul. 06) the trailer of the biopic. "[...] Discover Bob’s powerful story of overcoming adversity and the journey behind his revolutionary music," the production and distribution company said. "Bob Marley: One Love" is set for release on January 12, 2024. It follows...

Musician Joseph "Jo Mersa" Marley, the grandson of reggae superstar Bob Marley, is dead at 31. The Prime Minister of Jamaica, Andrew Holness, confirmed the news on his Twitter. He wrote in part, "My heartfelt sympathies to Joseph’s friends and associates and to the Reggae music fraternity and fans everywhere. His untimely passing at the young age of 31y.o. is a huge loss to the music as we look to the next generation." "May he find Eternal Peace as we mourn his loss during this season of goodwill when we celebrate with family and friends our love for each other."...

In one epic journey four and a half years ago, stretching from Denver to Boulder, Colo., Privateer Holdings co-founder and CEO, Brendan Kennedy hit up 40 medical marijuana dispensaries in a single day. At the time, his unusual new business was just getting started. Today, his private equity firm, which invests in legal marijuana-related startups, crossed another milestone with the announcement of its first institutional investor, Founders Fund—perhaps the first ever to invest in the cannabis industry, Kennedy says. "This is a key milestone for us as a company, but it's also important for the industry as a whole," said...

Marley Lion was killed in Charleston, South Carolina, at around 4 am on June 16, 2012. He was 17. His life and death has been ignored by the national media. Marley was white. His killers were black. Unlike Trayvon Martin, Marley Lion was shot in cold blood. There was no fight. He did not approach the thugs who murdered him. Unfortunately, some deaths are more important than others. ... Marley is a victim of black gang violence. Violent crime against white Americans was up 18% last year.

Love his music. Memory eternal in Christ.

Good Christians don’t always turn the other cheek, as a holly, jolly insurgency called the Committee to Save Christmas is about to show corporate America. Incensed by the neutralization of Dec. 25 to bland terms like “holiday,” Lynnfield brothers Robert and Kevin Marley are planning pickets in front of malls and any other store that refuses to display or utter the words “Merry Christmas” for fear of offending non-Christian shoppers. The brothers are putting together a Web site to recruit supporters with an eye toward launching their boycott on Nov. 24 - the day after Thanksgiving. “We’re taking back Christmas,”...

The tale of a rambunctious puppy is proving its staying power in the dog-eat-dog world of U.S. best-sellers. With more than 1 million copies in print, "Marley and Me -- Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog" has struck a chord with dog lovers who are laughing and crying over author John Grogan's account of his yellow Labrador retriever. The story is more than a recounting of Marley's antics that include chewing through doors, expulsion from obedience school, clawing paint off concrete walls, devouring furniture, swallowing valuable jewelry and swooning over soiled diapers. The excitable, good-natured lab also knows...

SHASHEMENE, Ethiopia, Feb 1 (IPS) - When news of the Indian Ocean tsunami filtered through to Africa the day after Christmas, Gladstone Robinson was playing Bob Marley's 'Natural Mystic'. ''It's the prophecy!'' shouted the 75-year-old, shaking his knotted stringy beard and grey dreadlocks, over the din of the CD player. ''Marley's song says it all: 'Many people would die, many would have to suffer and many more would have to cry','' said Robinson in his husky voice. 'Brother, I'll tell you Babylon is going to fall.'' The month of February is indeed special for the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. It...

To borrow a phrase from Shakespeare, the 200,000 people expected to gather for a historic concert in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, on Sunday will come to praise Bob Marley but not to bury him. The Africa Unite concert on 6 February was dreamt up as the culmination of a week of celebrations, which begin today, in memory of the 60th anniversary of the birth of the late reggae superstar. Tonight, the life of one of the most iconic musical figures of the late 20th century will be celebrated at a spectacular opening ceremony at Addis Ababa city hall. But...

LONDON (Billboard) - Bob Marley's 60th birthday will be celebrated with a month-long program of events in Ethiopia in February 2005. The program, titled "Africa Unite," will be spearheaded by a globally televised concert on Feb. 6, featuring the Marley children and his former backing singers the I-Threes. Harry Belafonte (news), Quincy Jones (news) and top African acts including Angelique Kidjo (news), Baaba Maal and Youssou N'Dour will also perform. The concert will be held in Addis Ababa's Mascoll Square, on what would have been Marley's 60th birthday. The singer died of cancer on May 11, 1981. Negotiations are under...

EVEN THE very heavens saluted Bob Marley on his 59th birthday. Bunny Wailer had just finished praying for his fellow original Wailer, saying that "Bob is a special individual created by the Most High", the birthday cake had been cut and Rastaman Vibration was rocking easy from the sound system at 10:07 p.m. Then an arm went up and a finger pointed to the sky above 56 Hope Road, St. Andrew in the direction of Papine. More arms and fingers quickly followed and there was a gathering chorus of roars, much like a wave building to a peak as it...