While completing the flag in 1776, Betsy Ross likely knelt on the flag, stood on it and treated it more like an everyday banner — not with the kind of reverence we’d expect today.

The black and white flag with the blue stripe — which adopts the likeness of the American flag — does not violate the U.S. Flag Code.

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A prosecutor declined to file charges Tuesday against a suburban Detroit man who displayed a Ku Klux Klan flag in his window next to the home of a Black family, saying the “horrible conduct ...

The Short, Fraught History of the ‘Thin Blue Line’ American Flag The controversial version of the U.S. flag has been hailed as a sign of police solidarity and criticized as a symbol of white supremacy ...

A post by Black Lives Matter Utah on the Fourth of July called the American flag a “symbol of hatred,” drawing strong reactions from conservatives on social media by several state Republicans.… ...

“The flag was really an afterthought,” says Scot Guenter, author of “The American Flag, 1777-1924” and a professor emeritus of American Studies at San Jose State University.