Red Pop and Freedom: How (And How Not) to Celebrate Juneteenth, a New Federal Holiday
…vist Ben Haith, founder of the National Juneteenth Celebration Foundation (NJCF). Haith, along with Verlene Hines, Azim, and Eliot Design created the flag in 1997. The flag’s illustrator, Lisa Jeanne Graf, added the flag’s red, white and blue vision of a zigzag shape surrounding a star. The designers intended for the flag to communicate the following message, according to McKenzie Jean-Philippe: “You’ll see that the Juneteenth flag uses the exact…
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