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Meta’s new child-safety agreement introduces meaningful safeguards, but it also raises a deeper question about what families have been left to manage alone.
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The race changes. The religion changes. The politics and geography change.
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The election will decide who holds power. The harder question is what kind of government, economy and democracy they will inherit—and whether America should restore the old system or build something stronger.
Clarence C. Mitchell reflects on the America he still believes is possible—one where difference is not feared, freedom belongs to everyone, competence matters more than spectacle, and serious public responsibilities are treated seriously.
It didn’t disappear under one president. It wasn’t destroyed by one trade agreement. And it didn’t begin with the financial crash of 2008. The story of the American middle class stretches across generations of factories, unions, tax codes, trade agreements, homes, paychecks, pensions, technology and political decisions. Sunday Dinner Media follows the evidence from the postwar economic expansion to the insecurity many working households feel today—and asks what happened to the bargain that once made middle-class life feel secure.
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Family archives, overlooked institutions, local history, and the lessons communities lose when memory goes unrecorded.
Explore the archive →The election will decide who holds power. The harder question is what kind of government, economy and democracy they will inherit—and whether America should restore the old system or build something stronger.
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Reporting and conversation about entrepreneurship, trades, labor, economic mobility, business, and working-family life.
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It didn’t disappear under one president. It wasn’t destroyed by one trade agreement. And it didn’t begin with the financial crash of 2008. The story of the American middle class stretches across generations of factories, unions, tax codes, trade agreements, homes, paychecks, pensions, technology and political decisions. Sunday Dinner Media follows the evidence from the postwar economic expansion to the insecurity many working households feel today—and asks what happened to the bargain that once made middle-class life feel secure.
A conversation about faith becomes a larger question about responsibility, moral choice and what humanity does with what has been entrusted to it. If God remains sovereign while our choices still carry consequences, when does trusting God become faith—and when does it become an excuse for refusing responsibility?
A father passes down a lesson his own father taught him: know your rights, but understand that a right written on paper cannot protect you from someone willing to ignore it. Through family memory, racial history, modern research and cases from Amadou Diallo to Tamir Rice and Airman Roger Fortson, Clarence C. Mitchell examines the survival wisdom Black families have passed across generations—and asks why parents are still being forced to teach it.
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Sometimes the fence protecting your world becomes the very thing keeping you from discovering it.
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Who built the America we live in—and how much of their work have we inherited without ever learning their names?
Sunday Dinner Media is researching a historical series examining overlooked inventors, builders, workers, knowledge keepers, organizers, and communities whose contributions helped shape the America we inherited.
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