KINGSTON, Jamaica – Leader of the Opposition Mark Golding visited Haile Selassie High on Tuesday to offer his support to the school community following last week’s murder of 14-year-old Price ...

In April 1966, Ethiopia's emperor Haile Selassie made a spectacular arrival in Jamaica. It was his first and only visit to the birthplace of the Rastafarian movement which revered him. A quarter ...

Haile Selassie was the last emperor in a line that royalists believe reaches back to King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Ethiopia was once known as Abyssinia, an ancient black kingdom.

On Sept. 12, 1974, military officers deposed Emperor Haile Selassie from the Ethiopian throne he had occupied for more than half a century.

Haile Selassie I was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He rose to power as Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia (Enderase) for Empress Zewditu from 1916.

Emperor Haile Selassie was the last in the line of Ethiopia’s ancient monarchy. During his long rule he was revered as an international statesman and reformer, demonised as a dictator, and even ...