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!

Whites eventually joined the fight against apartheid, leading many Black nationalists to break away from the ANC.

Later in the year, after Black joined Kiss FM with his own mix-based show, the pair eventually joined forces on its own show, Solid Steel.

In the same work, Howard also described how the Cimmerians eventually moved south and east after the age of Conan ( presumably in the vicinity of the Black Sea, where the historical Cimmerians dwelt ).

The ancient Amber Road led further southwest and southeast to the Black Sea and eventually to Asia.

Alongside his political activism, he became a radio journalist, eventually becoming president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists.

The Munich massacre is a common reference name for an attack that occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Bavaria, in southern West Germany, when 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed, along with a German police officer, by the Palestinian group Black September.

* Brian Humphries, the recording engineer, who started engineering Nirvana before going on to work with Traffic, Black Sabbath, McDonald and Giles and Pink Floyd ( eventually engineering their acclaimed Wish You Were Here and Animals albums ).

* 1883 – American Old West: Self-described " Black Bart the poet " gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that eventually leads to his capture.

Some of speed metal's earlier influences include Black Sabbath's " Children of the Grave ", Deep Purple's " Fireball " and Queen's " Stone Cold Crazy " ( which was eventually covered by the thrash metal band Metallica ), from their 1974 album Sheer Heart Attack, and Deep Purple's song " Highway Star ", from their album Machine Head.

The ancient amber roads led further south-west and south-east to the Black Sea and eventually to Asia.

* November 3 – American Old West: Self-described " Black Bart the Po-8 " makes his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a handkerchief with a laundry mark that eventually leads to his capture.

* November 3 – The Treaty of St. Louis ( 1804 ) is signed by Quashquame and William Henry Harrison ; controversy surrounding the treaty eventually causes the Sauks to ally with the British during the War of 1812 and is the main cause of the Black Hawk War of 1832.

After graduation from CCNY at 23, Shakur became involved in the Black Panther Party ( BPP ), eventually becoming a leading member of the Harlem branch.

The ' Black Proposal ' was a short, ten-page proposal for the creation of a supercomputing center which eventually led to funding from the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) to create supercomputing centers, including the National Center for Supercomputing Applications ( NCSA ) at the University of Illinois.

Io eventually crossed the path between the Propontis and the Black Sea, which thus acquired the name Bosporus ( meaning ox passage ), where she met Prometheus.

The ComiColor series included Little Black Sambo, a racially stereotyped work that was eventually banned in the United States.

Among the seventy colleges and universities which eventually evolved from the Morrill Acts are several of today's historically Black colleges and universities.

While the ethnic based army was generally successful on the battlefields, they began to have negative effects on the Fatimid's internal politics, traditionally the Berber element of the army had the strongest sway over political affairs, but as the Turkish element grew more powerful they began to challenge this, and eventually by 1020 serious riots began to break out among the Black African troops who were fighting back against a Berber / Turks Alliance.

Upon the death of the Black Prince the duchy of Cornwall passed to his nine-year-old son, who would eventually succeed his grandfather as Richard II.

In The Black Fleet Crisis, Threepio accompanies Lando Calrissian, R2-D2, and Lando's associate Lobot to investigate the runaway alien ship Teljkon Vagabond ; eventually to discover that the ship contains the last vestiges of the Quella civilization.

After the " classical " period around the turn of the 13th century and a mid-century resurgence, the art of the troubadours declined in the 14th century and eventually died out around the time of the Black Death ( 1348 ).

This battle marked the first appearance of the winged dragons, most notably Ancalagon the Black, but the Valar eventually won.

Winchester's " Black Talon " product name was eventually used against them.

The expedition then moved on sledges to go further north, then to open water, where they used boats to reach the Black Cape of Novaya Zemlya and would eventually contact a Russian schooner, " Nikolaj ", under Captain Feodor Veronin, and get to Vardø, Norway, where they took the mail boat south and eventually returned to Vienna.