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 ...

The Red, Black and Green Flag, also known as the African American Heritage Flag, honors Black History Month, which starts on Feb. 1 each year in the U.S. and showcases the blood, ...

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Design: Three horizontal stripes of red, black, and green. ... The Black American Heritage flag. Year created: 1967. Designed by: Melvin Charles and Gleason Jackson, ...

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Designed by: Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey, who called for a Black liberation flag representing all of the African diaspora. Design: Three horizontal stripes of red, black, and green.

Smithsonian magazine reported Hammons explaining the flag: “Marcus Garvey designed the African American flag, which looked like the Italian flag except that it is red, black, and green.

Flags often imitate or are influenced by other nations, creating “flag families.” For example, the Netherlands’ red, white and blue flag from the 1500s set a precedent.

Hammons has said: “Marcus Garvey designed the African American flag, which looked like the Italian flag except that it is red, black, and green. But it is so abstract, so pure, that the masses ...

Heidi Klum always makes a statement with her outfits on the red carpet and that’s exactly what she did at the Green Carpet Fashion Awards in LA on March 9. The 49-year-old put her toned legs on ...