EditorialPublic Issues & Current Events
The Blue Wave Arrived. Now Democrats Have to Deliver.
Historic victories changed the balance of power. Democrats now have two years to build a record of accountability, opportunity and practical relief.
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Personal EssayFamily & Generational Wisdom
What Does It Really Mean to Protect Our Children Online?
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.
CommentaryPublic Issues & Current Events
The America That I Dream Of
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.
CommentaryPublic Issues & Current Events
What Happened to the American Middle Class?
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.
Personal EssayPublic Issues & Current Events
I Am American: The Freedom, the Faith, and the Truth We Forget
My family answered this country’s call. Black Americans and their allies fought to make its freedoms real at home. No one gets to tell me that I belong here less than they do.
Personal EssayFamily & Generational Wisdom
Holiday Saving Tips: What Layaway and Christmas Clubs Still Teach Us
My parents planned for Christmas a few dollars at a time. Their methods still offer a lesson, even as the ways we shop have changed.
Personal EssayWork, Trades & Entrepreneurship
The Four Seasons of Business: Why You Should Treat Your Business Like Farming
Every business has a season for planting, working, adapting, harvesting—and sometimes simply surviving. The mistake is expecting every season to look like success.
CommentaryPublic Issues & Current Events
If America Is Really First, Why Do We Keep Voting for It to Be Last?
The slogan promises a stronger nation. The question is whom our choices have put first.
CommentaryFaith & Values
Dominion, Not Dependence: What Were We Placed Here to Do?
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?
CommentaryFamily & Generational Wisdom
The Only Real Rights Are the Ones That Get You Home
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.
CommentaryHistory & Preservation
From Pits to Politics: How Barbecue Became a Campaign Superpower
What could be more American than barbecue? Follow the smoke through early elections, mass political rallies, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Black voter mobilization, presidential diplomacy, and modern campaign traditions, and barbecue becomes something much bigger than food. It becomes a window into how Americans have gathered, organized, persuaded, excluded, resisted, and exercised political power.
Personal EssayLeadership & Responsibility
Your Truth Starts With You
The fire before sunrise, the discipline nobody applauds, and the choices that become a legacy.