[1][2][3] A tri-color flag, it consists of three equal horizontal bands of (from top down) red, black, and green.

[13] June 19, 1865, is the date in which enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, finally received the news of their freedom.

[15] In the United States, following the refusal of a grand jury to indict a police officer in the August 9, 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, a Howard University student replaced the U.S. flag on that school's Washington, D.C. campus flagpole with a "black solidarity" flag (this tricolor) flying at half-mast.

[21] The Kenyan flag (Swahili: Bendera ya Kenya) is a tricolor of black, red, and green with two white fimbriations imposed, with a Masai shield and two crossed spears.

[22] The flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis has similar colors, arranged diagonally and separated by yellow lines.

[23] In the 1960s The Us Organization redesigned the UNIA flag also changing order and significance of the colours to: black, red and green.

[24] United States Postal Service issued a stamp in 1997 to commemorate the African-American festival of Kwanzaa with a painting by artist Synthia Saint James of a dark-skinned family wearing garments traditional in parts of Africa and fashionable for special occasions among African-Americans.

[25] In 1990, artist David Hammons created a work called African-American Flag, which is held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

[26] The flag goes by several other names with varying degrees of popularity: In 1999, an article appeared in the July 25 edition of The Black World Today suggesting that, as an act of global solidarity, every August 17 should be celebrated worldwide as Universal African Flag Day by flying the red, black, and green banner.