Black Flag or black flag may refer to:

* Black Flag ( newspaper ), a publication in Britain

* Black Flag, Western Australia

* Black Flag ( insecticide ), a brand of pesticide

* Black Flag ( band ), a music group

* Black Flag Army, a militia in Vietnam

* 1961 – Henry Rollins, American musician, comedian, and actor ( Black Flag )

Bands such as Black Flag and Crass ( and their followers ) widely stenciled their names and logos, while many punk night clubs, squats and hangouts are famous for their graffiti.

Siege, from Weymouth, Massachusetts, were influenced by classic American hardcore ( Minor Threat, Black Flag, Void ) and by British groups like Discharge, Venom, and Motörhead.

Repulsion, from Flint, Michigan, cited street punk groups like Discharge and Charged GBH, crossover thrash such as Dirty Rotten Imbeciles and Corrosion of Conformity, thrash metal like Slayer, Metallica, Sodom, and Venom, and death metal ( Possessed ), hardcore punk, like Black Flag, and older hard rock, as inspirational.

After performing for the short-lived Washington D. C .- based band State of Alert in 1980, Rollins fronted the California hardcore punk band Black Flag from August 1981 until mid-1986.

Since Black Flag disbanded, Rollins has hosted numerous radio shows, such as Harmony in My Head on Indie 103, and television shows such as The Henry Rollins Show, MTV < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s 120 Minutes, and Jackass.

He has also covered songs by hardcore punk bands such as The Exploited, Jello Biafra, and Black Flag.

* 1961 – Kira Roessler, American singer and bassist ( Black Flag and Dos )

* 1954 – Greg Ginn, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ( Black Flag, Gone, Mojack, and Confront James )

* Black Flag ( newspaper )

* 2002 – Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three – performs on " Thirsty & Miserable "

Along with the fellow Washington, D. C. hardcore band Bad Brains and California band Black Flag, Minor Threat set the standard for many hardcore punk bands in the 1980s and 1990s.

In late 1993, Meat Puppets achieved mainstream popularity when Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, who became a fan after seeing them open for Black Flag, invited Cris and Curt to join him on MTV Unplugged for acoustic performances of " Plateau ", " Oh Me " and " Lake of Fire " ( all originally from Meat Puppets II ).

Among the earliest hardcore bands, regarded as having made the first recordings in the style, were Southern California's Middle Class and Black Flag.

A 1985 Rolling Stone feature on the Minneapolis scene and innovative California hardcore acts such as Black Flag and Minutemen declared, " Primal punk is passé.

Santiago listened to 1970s and 1980s punk including Black Flag and David Bowie.

Penelope Spheeris ' first installment of the three-part documentary " The Decline of Western Civilization " ( 1981 ) details extensive footage of the early Los Angeles punk scene through interviews and early concert footage from Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Germs, Fear, and Catholic Discipline, among others.

Black, white and gold are colours associated with Cornwall due to St Piran's Flag ( black and white ), and the Duchy Shield ( gold coins on black ).

* 1955 – Keith Morris, American singer-songwriter ( Black Flag, Circle Jerks, and Off!

" Black teams earned the bulk of their income playing white independent ' semipro ' clubs.

The Northern Cheyenne earned their right to remain in the north near the Black Hills, land they considered sacred.

Priestley's first major success came with a novel, The Good Companions ( 1929 ), which earned him the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and made him a national figure.

The large amount of coal extracted from the Nelsonville area earned Nelsonville the nickname " Little City of Black Diamonds.

Another of Girardville's most famous citizens was John " Black Jack " Kehoe, the high constable of Girardville during the 1870s, whose charismatic leadership in the fight for labor rights by the coal miners of the period earned him a place in local, state, national and world history.

Her performances in the Broadway musical Black and Blue earned Brown a Tony Award, and the original cast recording won a Grammy Award.

They were not monks but communities of canons living under the rule of St. Augustine, wearing dark robes that earned them the name the " Black Canons ".

The name of the project is a pun on Black – Scholes, a widely used equation in financial derivatives pricing which earned two of its three inventors a Nobel Prize in Economics.

Older-style anesthesia masks of black rubber, still in occasional use today, are one of the more common elements fetishized, and have earned the nickname Black Beauty by many fetishists.

These items had been earned through trials set for her by a wilder in the Black Hills.

The Black Market is also available in Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut ; in that version, with more game Emblems earned, rarer merchandise becomes available in the Market.

Henry Lincoln Johnson, a former Albany, New York, rail station porter, who earned the nickname " Black Death " for his actions in combat in France.

Black earned an O. D.

These are mostly ' Black Pirates ,' a faction of unscrupulous criminals who lack the Blue Rogues ' self-restraint and hence have earned the Rogues ' ire.

Wonderful reached number 22 and number 2 on Billboards Top Contemporary Christian and Top Gospel Albums charts, respectively, and earned Williams a Gospel Music Association ( GMA ) Dove Award for Best Traditional Black Gospel Recorded Song of the Year.

He earned the Iron Cross ( First and Second Class ), the Cross of Honour 1914 – 1918 Combatants medal, and a Wound Badge Black Class in 1914.

The amount of points earned is used to determine Signature Club tier levels ( Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum and Black ), with each tier rewarding members with different discounts, offers and entrance to varying VIP areas throughout the complex.

Martha Black, the second woman elected to the Canadian House of Commons, as a single mother in Dawson earned a living by staking gold mining claims and running a sawmill and a gold ore-crushing plant.

The football team, Kidwelly Town AFC ( nicknamed The Black Cats ) earned promotion in 2011 / 12 and will begin the 2012 / 13 season in Carmarthenshire League Division 2 in the Welsh football pyramid.

Craufurd was a strict disciplinarian and somewhat prone to violent mood swings which earned him the nickname " Black Bob ".

In the 1968 Olympic Games at Mexico City, on 16 October, he won the gold medal for the 200 m in a world record time 19. 83 s. He and a teammate, John Carlos, who earned the bronze medal, gave a Black Power salute while receiving their medals.

The track allegedly earned the moniker The Lady in Black because the walls around the track are always painted white prior to a race, but are always largely black by the end of it due to a profusion of tire contacts.

In 2001, Lathan earned additional acclaim for her work in the multicultural comedy Catfish in Black Bean Sauce.

He earned his first All Black cap in 1999, playing a single test against the Springboks before the 1999 Rugby Union World Cup.