Public issues
Fact-grounded reporting and analysis of the policies, systems, and public choices shaping everyday life.
The Big Beautiful Bill promised prosperity. Its household costs and the election’s enormous donor spending demand a fairer tax plan—and a public test of “America First.”
Historic victories changed the balance of power. Democrats now have two years to build a record of accountability, opportunity and practical relief.
The principles we teach our children should govern what we accept from our leaders.
Martial artists, local businesses, civic supporters, and families joined a fundraiser that raised nearly $3,000 for the Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Center Foundation.
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.
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.
Two days before the election, Stevens presented Rogers as an ally for Black businesses. His record on lending, health care, and civil rights deserves scrutiny.
The work behind progress rarely gets applause. Keep showing up anyway
America produces enormous amounts of oil. Understanding why that does not guarantee affordable energy means following the oil, the money, and the decisions made in our name.
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.
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.
Every business has a season for planting, working, adapting, harvesting—and sometimes simply surviving. The mistake is expecting every season to look like success.
The slogan promises a stronger nation. The question is whom our choices have put first.
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.
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.
Main Street was never important simply because it had stores. It mattered because some businesses stayed long enough to become institutions—creating jobs, ownership, trust, first opportunities and generational relationships. Sunday Dinner Media examines what communities lose when that continuity disappears, what modern commerce has changed, and what it might take to give today’s businesses a chance to become the places our grandchildren remember.
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.
A kitchen-table conversation about working bodies, moving retirement lines, survival, and who gets to write the policies.
The fire before sunrise, the discipline nobody applauds, and the choices that become a legacy.
Jerk is more than heat. Its ingredients, smoke, technique, and regional variations carry resistance, resourcefulness, and family tradition.