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The colors are every bit represented on the flag, Red, Black and Dark-green (not Light-green, black and cherry ) and did indeed evolve from Marcus Garvey’s UNIA movement. However, the colors were adopted past an international assemblage of 25 countries of the African diaspora, thereby making the colors international.

African Americans have held proudly onto their imprint for the past 78 years hoisting it under various titles: International African Flag, The African Flag, Pan African Flag, Liberation Flag, Black Flag, African American Flag, Afro-American Flag and others. Yes, the colors were hoisted first in the The states and, it represents all peoples of the African Diaspora regardless of country of birth.

Rasta colors and The Pan African (Garvey Flag) colors not the same and should not be confused. Rasta colors are the Ethiopian colors of green, gold and crimson.

Beatrice C. Jones, xvi November 1998

The Blood-red, Blackness and GREEN Flag was unveiled to the earth by the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey and the members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, of the Globe at it’south first international convention on Baronial xiii, 1920. The UNIA-ACL knew that Africans at dwelling and abroad needed their ain flag as other flags effectually the world could not correspond the commonage of African people.

The use of Red, Black and Green every bit colors symbolizing African nationhood was kickoff “adopted past the UNIA-ACL equally part of the 1920 Announcement of Rights every bit the official colors of the African race. The question of a flag for the race was not equally trivial as might have appeared on the surface, for in the United states of america especially, the lack of an African symbol of nationhood seems to have been cause for rough derision on the role of whites and a source of sensitivity on the part of Afro-Americans.

The race catechism Garveyites used explained the significance of the red, blackness, and dark-green as for the “colour of the blood which men must shed for their redemption and freedom”, blackness for “the color of the noble and distinguished race to which we belong,” and green for “the luxuriant vegetation of our Motherland.

Nnamdi Azikewe, 12 April 2000

This variant of Garvey’south flag has unchanged color gild, but is amended with a red star in centre of the black field was seen in Oakland, California in 1989, at the funeral of Huey Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party. The photos from the outcome can be seen hither:
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Information technology was certainly brought at that place past the Black Panthers’ sympathizers, just is yet to be found if it was their official flag equally well. And then far, no testify is available on the Web. It might be worth noting, though, that it seems that the New Black Panther Party, their self-designated successor, makes utilize of evidently ruddy-black-green flag only – at least, only that one was seen in the photos related to them and then far.
Tomislav Todorovic, eight August 2011

This variant of African-American flag uses the colors introduced by Marcus Garvey, but in a unlike social club:

The black-blood-red-dark-green flag has first appeared on a stamp issued by the Us Postal Service in 1997 to commemorate Kwanzaa, the African-American yearly celebration [1]. Compared with the Garvey’s flag, information technology has the black and blood-red fields with swapped places, so information technology might have been created as an error [2]. Withal in that location are examples of its use in real life, like the African-American Parade in Cleveland, Ohio, on 2011-06-04, where at least one such flag was carried among many red-black-greenish flags [3]. There is also a blog entry nigh Kwanzaa [4] with 2 accompanied photos, 1 showing an African woman holding the said flag and another one showing the same adult female with a little Caucasian daughter before the kinara (the Kwanzaa candle holder), which is ready upon a spread flag with this design.

Sources:
[ane] Wikipedia page about Kwanzaa: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa
[2] Wikipedia page well-nigh Garvey’due south flag: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_Flag
[3] ClevelandPeople.Com website: www.clevelandpeople.com/groups/africanamerican/2011/parade.htm
[4] Rimadyl For Dogs blog: blog, Image 1, Image 2

Tomislav Todorovic, 7 August 2011

Very rarely, Garvey’south flag is used with the reversed color club – green-black-red. One case is from protests in Hartford, CT in Baronial 2014 [1]. While in that location is the possibility that the flag used at that place was just the red-black-green ane which was held upside-downwardly, that is definitely not the case in the video for song “Weapon X” by hip-hop group 10 Clan, where the dark-green-blackness-ruddy flag is attached to a hand-held staff in a way which leaves no place for dubiety. The flag can be seen, together with an Ethiopian flag (with the lion), several times during the video [2].

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Cecil Lee’due south outset public showing of the African American Flag of Inclusion was in 1999 at a one man art show at Gallery 10 in Harlem. In 1998 he coined the term “Computer Evolved Multi-medium Art” a form of figurer art from which the acronym “CEMA” is derived.

Created in 1999 the “African American Flag of Inclusion” represents a concept that has long been part of many an African American’s psyche, expressing a reality many of us consciously or unconsciously have acknowledged. It is also an identifying motif intended to represent all African Americans regardless of their private beliefs or political affiliations.

A symbol whose fourth dimension has come The African American Flag of Inclusion reaches beyond religious, political and philosophical beliefs reflecting the African Americans’ unique contributions and accomplishments toward the inventiveness, creativity, building, growth and stability of the Us of America.

The elements of the African American Flag of Inclusion stand for:
red = life/blood, family, vitality & oneness
black = the people, strength, depth & influence
green = world, development, growth & progress
stars & stripes = equality & unification

Source: ceelee.com/flag/index.htm
Nelson Román, 2 November 2003

The Black American Heritage flag was designed in 1967 by Melvin Charles and Gleason T. Jackson. According to the designers, “…the elements of the flag include the color blackness to stand for pride and pigmentation and race; reddish, to remind usa of the rich blood black men take shed for freedom, equality, justice and homo dignity throughout the globe; and golden, to correspond intellect, prosperity, and peace. These colors are woven into a composition that juxtaposes the red and black in a prepare of 3 stripes: one black stripe centered between ii red.”
“Superimposed on the black stripe is a golden wreath of fig leaves. The cultivated fig is a native of Africa, and ranks as i of the about ancient of life-sustaining fruits. Centered within the aureate wreath is a blunted Moorish boarding sword, symbol of leadership carried by the bully Moorish leaders of the 8th century. The sword represents the strength and authority exhibited by a black culture that made many contributions to the earth in mathematics, art, medicine, and concrete science, heralding the contributions that black Americans would make in these and other fields.”

source: Historical Flags of Our Ancestors
Pete Loeser, 7 December 2016

Three variants of the U.Southward. flag repainted in Garvey colors were reported by Steve Shumaker. Here follows the info nearly their creator and meanings of each of them. Each of them has a proper noun of its own.

These flags, known under the mutual name of All American Flags, are created by Carl Sharif of Newark, New Jersey, and sold by his company U.s. For Once, Inc. More details most the company at its website: world wide web.usforonce.com/most.html.

All American Flag, Mainlander:

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Tomislav Todorovic, 7 Oct 2012

The flag with vii black and six green stripes and red stars on black canton is dedicated to the retentiveness of all Africans who lost their lives during the Centre Passage, which is another name for slave trade. Blackness stripes represent their deaths and green ones for their youth, for most of them were young people. Black canton stands for the African origins of the flag users and scarlet for the blood spilled by their ancestors, not only during the Center Passage, only as well during the latter sufferings and struggles in America. Every bit such, the flag is also recommended for use at the funerals.

More details here: www.usforonce.com/middle_passage.html

All American Flag, Islander:

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Tomislav Todorovic, vii October 2012

While the canton is identical as on the previous flag and given the same significant, the stripes are repainted into Garvey colors, alternating black (topmost), green and cerise and ending with black at the bottom. The flag pattern denotes that African traditions in the New Earth are best preserved in the Caribbean area Islands and South America and also reminds of the fact that Marcus Garvey was a native of Jamaica.

More details here: www.usforonce.com/islander.html

All American Flag, Middle Passage:

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Tomislav Todorovic, 7 October 2012

While sharing the same canton and its meaning with two other flags, this flag has 7 reddish and six green stripes. Intentionally made to be the most like with the U.S. national flag, information technology is meant to correspond the Due north American people of African origin and their struggles and sacrifices.

More than details here: www.usforonce.com/mainlander.html
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Tomislav Todorovic, 7 October 2012

This flag is derived from the United states national flag by repainting information technology as follows: the canton is blackness, the stars are reddish and the stripes are in Garvey colors, alternating blackness (topmost), green and red and ending with blackness at the bottom. This is actually identical to the All American Flag, Islander by Carl Sharif but information technology is not clear if there are any connections. Under this newly discovered name, the flag was used at the Martin Luther King, Jr. African-American Heritage Rodeo, which takes place in Denver, Colorado. Its currently available photos date from 2016 [one, two], 2017 [three] and 2018 [4].

Sources:
[i] Library of Congress website – Photo of Blackness American National Flag, taken on 2016-01-xviii: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017686727/

[two] Library of Congress website – Photo of Blackness American National Flag, taken on 2016-01-xviii: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/particular/2017686728/

[3] GettyImages photo archive – Photo of Black American National Flag, taken on 2017-01-16 (information hidden within the page source code): https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/cowgirl-presents-the-black-american-national-flag-at-the-news-photo/631857536

[4] CBS Denver website – Photograph of Black American National Flag, taken on 2018-01-15: https://denver.cbslocal.com/photo-galleries/2018/01/xvi/national-western-stock-show-three/ (image: https://denver.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/15909806/2018/01/gettyimages-905430952_master.jpg?w=1024&h=0&crop=ane)

Tomislav Todorovic, 2 September 2019