35-stars were on the Union flag during the Civil War.

Rethinking Racism: Part 5, Emancipation … and Betrayal

Critical race theory … Whoopi Goldberg suspended for comments about Jews and race … once again we are arguing about racism … welcome to the fifth in an eight-part series on how we understand America’s original sin. The series will be published on eight successive days. In Part 5 we track the rise of the abolitionist movement through the Civil War, the effort to grant full civil rights to freed…