The banner, with its horizontal red, black and green stripes, was adopted by the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) at a conference in New York City in 1920.

He had opted for a black-based pair of the Black Ice Low in each of the last nine road and home games, and certainly the switch was a more clean match to the green and red striping seen throughout ...

Richard Pelham / Getty Images "Green, yellow and black are much more popular in Africa. That may be an anti-colonial reaction to the red, white, and blue of the colonial powers," Kaye says.