![]() The flag's creation was inspired by a racist minstrel show song from 1900 called "Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon." The Pan African flag was born out of the racism of the 1920s. GPB's Leah Fleming interviews Georgia State professor Akinyele Umoja 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. The Pan-African flag has appeared at the center of some of the most painful moments in American history. ![]() The Pan-African Flag, created by Marcus Garvey of the UNIA
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