A Juneteenth flag was created in 1997 that included the colors red, white and blue. Many Black people celebrate Juneteenth with a flag that is red, black and green. Some social media users called ...

What, to Black people, is the Fourth of July? The American flag is no weapon. It’s a promise for us to fulfill. By Jeneé Osterheldt Globe Columnist,Updated July 3, 2025, 4:37 p.m.

And white people in the States could just fly the American flag. Black people could fly none of those because we didn’t know where we were from and the United States is not ours.

The Black American Heritage flag Year created: 1967 Designed by: Melvin Charles and Gleason Jackson, to convey and represent pride in the history of Black Americans.

Yet four years after I spotted that American flag in the Catskills through a haze of confusion and fear, I found myself purchasing Americana fashion to wear to Beyoncé's "Cowboy Carter" tour.

I made my flag because I felt that they needed one like the U.S. flag but with black stars instead of white ones.” Hammons was born in Springfield, Illinois, in 1943.

Team Biden draped what is known as the Progress Pride flag, with no fewer than 11 different colors, on the White House between two American flags, giving it — no pun intended — pride of place.