Melvin Charles and Gleason T. Jackson designed the Black American Heritage Flag in Newark, New Jersey. ... one with a red background, another in black, and a third with green.

The LP’s cover is reminiscent of Stankonia’s, with Uzi posing in front of an American flag with pink stripes and stars emblazoned across a black background.

But for a lot of Americans, the celebration, and the flag itself, are more complicated than that. That’s the question that Explain It to Me, Vox’s weekly call-in show, is setting out to tackle this ...

Also known as the UNIA flag, Afro-American flag, Black Liberation flag or simply the Marcus Garvey flag, this vibrant symbol of red, black, and green came to be in 1920.

Following the death of former President Jimmy Carter, American flags fly at half-staff at daybreak with the U.S. Capitol in the background on December 30, 2024, in Washington.