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, ...

The red, white and blue of the Juneteenth flag, a familiar color scheme, will be flying alongside the American flag in many places on June 19, symbolizing the end of slavery in Texas. In Houston and ...

This story was part of a special Juneteenth project originally published in 2022 with Vox that explored the ongoing struggle ...

Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery. See what President Trump said about it and what the holiday's flag means.

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

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.

First created in 1997 by National Juneteenth Celebration Foundation founder Ben Haith, the banner is in red, white and blue of the U.S. flag to convey that all enslaved people and their descendants ...