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Saint Piran's Flag is the negative image of the old Breton flag, a black cross on a white field. The flag of Saint David shares a black background with Saint Piran's Flag, but is surmounted by a gold, rather than a white, cross. The Standard of the Army of the Breton Duchy (An Kroaz Du) The Welsh flag of Saint David
The flag uses the colors red, white and blue of the American flag. Featured prominently in the center of the flag is a bursting star. [ 6 ] Running through the center of the flag horizontally, is an arc that is meant to symbolize the new horizon of opportunity for black people. [ 4 ]
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A solid black square, used by many to represent Blackout Tuesday. Blackout Tuesday was a collective action to protest racism and police brutality. [1] [2] The action, originally organized within the music industry in response to the murder of George Floyd, the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, and the killing of Breonna Taylor, [3] took place on Tuesday, June 2, 2020.
Every June since the 1970s, across the United States, musicians, fans and industry professionals celebrate Black Music Month. It's an opportunity to highlight the contributions of Black artists ...
[44] [12] The Black community began using the word Juneteenth for Jubilee Day early in the 1890s. [8] The word Juneteenth appeared in print in the Brenham Weekly Banner, a white newspaper from Brenham, Texas, as early as 1891. [52] Mentions of Juneteenth celebrations outside of Texas appeared as early as 1909 in Shreveport, Louisiana. [53]
Black Music Month became African American Music Appreciation Month in 2009 by a proclamation from President Barack Obama. [4] In his 2016 proclamation, Obama noted that African-American music and musicians have helped the country "to dance, to express our faith through song, to march against injustice, and to defend our country's enduring ...
June Edmonds, Gee's Jungle, oil on canvas, 40" x 30", 2011. June Edmonds is an American painter and public artist based in Los Angeles. [1] [2] She is best known for patterned, thickly textured abstract paintings—most notably, her "Energy Wheel Paintings" and "Flag Paintings"—which express the social, psychological and historical complexity of Black experience.