What does the red black and green flag represent

African Country by Size List. Africa Which are the top twenty largest, smallest, and territorial country in Africa by land area? 1. The continent of Africa is the world’s second largest based on land area and population just after Asia. 2. Top five largest countries of Africa are Algeria, Congo Democratic Republic of the, Sudan, Libya and Chad. 3. Top five smallest African countries and territories are Mauritius, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, Saint Helena and Mayotte. African Country from largest to smallest Area sq mile Area sq km Algeria 919,595 2,381,740 Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) 905,568 2,345,410 Sudan 718,723 1,861,484 Libya 679,362 1,759,540 Chad 495,755 1,284,000 Niger 489,191 1,267,000 Angola 481,354 1,246,700 Mali 478,767 1,240,000 South Africa 471,011 1,219,912 Ethiopia 435,186 1,127,127 Mauritania 397,95

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The Pan-African flag has appeared at the center of some of the most painful moments in American history.  

In 2014, an unarmed black teenager Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, protesters waved the Pan-African flag as they marched through the streets.

GPB's Leah Fleming interviews Georgia State professor Akinyele Umoja

The Pan African flag was born out of the racism of the 1920s. The flag's creation was inspired by a racist minstrel show song from 1900 called "Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon."

Students from the Kilombo Academic and Cultural Institute in Decatur singing "Raise The Red, The Black, And The Green," a song about the Pan-African Flag @TaylorGantt2112 @LeahRadio @MorningEdition pic.twitter.com/ZbtDDeE5M4— GPB News (@gpbnews) January 23, 2019

Marcus Garvey, who was the leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, would go on to create the flag as a symbol for black people around the world.

Akinyele Umoja, who chairs the department of African American Studies at Georgia State University, spoke with GPB's Leah Fleming as part of our series on the power of a flag in the American experience.  

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Leah Fleming is an award-winning radio host and correspondent.

You can hear her greet you weekday mornings from 5 to 9 a.m. on GPB’s Morning Edition from NPR News. Morning Edition is heard throughout the state and beyond at GPB.org and on the GPB apps. 

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Taylor Gantt is a multimedia journalist and a Georgia native. He graduated from Georgia State University in 2015 with degree in journalism and a concentration in telecommunications.

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What does the red black and green flag represent

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What does the red black and green flag represent

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What does the red black and green flag represent

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What does the red black and green flag represent

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What country flag is red black green?

The Red, Black and Green flag represents the entire African nation (black people everywhere). It was voted to be the flag of Africa on August 12, 1920 by Marcus Garvey and the thousands of members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), at their conference in Brooklyn NY.

What is the red black white and green flag?

The flag of Palestine (Arabic: علم فلسطين) is a tricolor of three equal horizontal stripes (black, white, and green from top to bottom) overlaid by a red triangle issuing from the hoist.