Let My People Stink

(EXTRA CREEM, at great expense of time and health, has rpanaged to get into the Rasta barrio in Birmingham and mix with the inhabitants to file this photo essay on the real hard-core . Rastafarians. Few people know that the original Rastas did not come from . Jamaica, or even Ethiopia, but a twomile area north of Detroit bounded by Woodward Ave., Maple Road and Brown Street in Birmingham. Our photographer and editor mixed with the Rastas, won their confidence, and reported upon their strange and often exotically appealing behavior, in an effort to understand just another of Detroit's unique ethnic communities — their problems, their ideals...Read it and enjoy, enjoy.—Ed.)