447- Flag Days: The Red, the Black & the Green

99% Invisible

• Episode: 447- Flag Days: The Red, the Black & the Green
• Website: 99% Invisible
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• Duration: 00:34:43
• Published: 2021-06-15 22:23

After Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd last year, tens of thousands of people all over the world took to the streets to protest police violence against Black people. And if you look at images from these marches, you will probably start to notice a common color scheme -- one involving a lot of red, black, and green. The flag was invented to unite Black people all over the world living under racial repression. When it first came into existence, the flag posed some bold questions about where Black people owed their loyalty: was it to the nations where their lives were demeaned and threatened? Or to a new nation - one they would build entirely for themselves? For hundreds of thousands of Black people, the red-black-and-green symbolized the answer.

 Flag Days: The Red, the Black & the Green