Family & generational wisdom
Stories about family knowledge, memory, responsibility, care, and the wisdom that can disappear when nobody preserves it.
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.
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.
A forceful personal commentary questioning selective outrage, punishment-first public policy, and the abandonment of working communities.
Black Democrats can be angry about where America is headed without pretending to be surprised. Clarence C. Mitchell reflects on the public record voters had before the 2024 election, the distractions that shaped the campaign, and a simple truth about democracy: choice carries responsibility.