Black Flag

Black Flag or black flag may refer to:

in anarchism:

  • Black Flag (newspaper), a publication in Britain
  • Czarny Sztandar, an organisation in Russia
  • An element of anarchist symbolism

in other uses:

  • Black Flag, Western Australia
  • Black Flag (insecticide), a brand of pesticide
  • Black Flag (band), a music group
  • Black Flag Army, a militia in Vietnam
  • False flag, a type of warfare
  • Pan-African flag, a trans-national unity symbol
  • Ferraria crispa, a plant
  • A type of racing flag
  • A signal to parley
  • One of various flags that are primarily black: list of black flags


Famous quotes containing the words black and/or flag:

    The ornament is a statuette, a black figure of a bird. I am prepared to pay on behalf of the figure’s rightful owner the sum of $5000 for its recovery. I am prepared to promise, to promise ... what is the phrase?—’No questions will be asked.’
    John Huston (1906–1987)

    Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow—red, yellow, brown, black and white—and we’re all precious in God’s sight.
    Jesse Jackson (b. 1941)