By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Compliments didn’t come often in my family.
As a matter of fact, it rains more frequently in deserts. Compliments from my parents had to be earned through exemplary efforts. Anything less was just getting by.
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Earnest L. Perry has helped make diversity count at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism. Since 2005, he has been chair and associate professor of journalism studies. No African American held such a position when I was a student in the mid-70s.
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Board Columnist
The warm weather Friday prompted a lot of people to work outdoors. In midtown, Marcus Lee Looney raked leaves in the 3900 block of Forest Avenue and talked about how federal stimulus money for the Green Impact Zone would improve the long-neglected urban community.
Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Board Columnist
Voting shouldn't be so difficult - especially when only one issue is on the ballot.
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Board Columnist
In a workshop, Patty Bode provided a wonderful definition of multicultural education and how it can be put to use effectively to boost student achievement.
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Board Columnist
A new moon cast a strange light on the Kansas flatlands as I drove from Denver to Kansas City on Halloween following a week at a multicultural education convention.
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Board Columnist
Robert Cook gave people at a multicultural education convention in Denver a patriotic history lesson that was different from any that most people had heard before.
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
I am an odd sight in the dark of early mornings — bundled in mismatched hooded sweats, orange knit cap, blue scarf and socks for gloves. Before 6 a.m., I am one of few runners out in the Northeast area neighborhood I moved to last month.
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Board Columnist
Not everyone at the multicultural education convention in Denver embraces all aspects of diversity.
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Columnist
Peace, equity and social justice have to become key parts of education, people at the 19th Annual International Conference of the National Association for Multicultural Education were told Thursday in Denver.
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Board Columnist
La Vonne Neal surprised everyone at the opening session Wednesday of the 19th Annual International Conference of the National Association for Multicultural Education Convention in Denver.
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Board Columnist
Denver teaches harsh lessons on driving in snow.
At 6 a.m. Wednesday, I started the trip across Kansas for the Mile High City, where hundreds of people are gathering for the 19th Annual International Conference of the National Association for Multicultural Education. It was an uneventful drive in the darkness.
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Every trip over the Paseo Bridge now reconnects me with my childhood in St. Louis.
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Board Columnist
The first African-American mayor of Philadelphia, Miss., told the NAACP of Kansas City today that hate-speech must end.
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Art often articulates complicated subjects that people either avoid or struggle to describe.
The “Black Is, Black Ain’t” art exhibit at the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute illustrated that well.
The title came from a line in Ralph Ellison’s book, “Invisible Man.”
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Board Columnist
A vastly diverse group of people crowded The Louis Memorial Chapel at 6830 Troost Ave. this morning to honor Allan Edward Abrams.
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Just before an interview with John Covington, I tore a “Thought for the day” out of The Star, enlarged it and handed him the copy during our visit.
The Star's Friday Editorial
Thousands of people and hundreds of horses will march with pride starting at 10 a.m. Saturday when they hit the streets for the 84th annual American Royal Parade. This beautiful spectacle is a Kansas City tradition.
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
In words and in deeds, people in this country struggle with peace.
The issue surfaced when peace studies students at Avila University asked me for a definition of that often used but frequently diminished word. My frustration is people define peace by what it isn’t.
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Board Columnist
Conversations at a diversity discussion group Tuesday night in Olathe showed that the sleeping giant in the health care reform debate could be people with disabilities.
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Board Columnist
It's hard to feel sorry for Operation Rescue.
The forthright and forceful Wichita-based anti-abortion group is tapped out. The cash it had to be the loud and aggressive voice against women's rights has run out.
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
A Gem Theater gathering enthusiastically showered urban development ideas on an economically parched area of the city. The fact that officials even asked caused buds of hope to sprout in the long-neglected community.
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Board,
Health care threatens to change the Democratic control in the House and Senate the way that federal gun legislation did in 1994.
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Board Columnist
The latest in the bizarre Sarah Palin family goings-on merit exposure on the "Jerry Springer Show."
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
The faces of folks at conventions blur quickly in time’s fast moving fog.
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Board Columnist
Every parent of children age 12 and under should be outraged that Mattel Inc. is being allowed to skirt a new law requiring independent laboratory safety tests.
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Far too many students enter college each year unprepared because of deficiencies in elementary and secondary school education.
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
In just two days, my young friend India Wells will move into a dormitory at the University of Missouri-Columbia for her first year of college.
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Board Columnist
Sometimes Missouri lawmakers get it right.
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Trends in education sometimes have great, long-term benefits, and I applaud them.
But other times news of the latest goings-on just make me scratch my head and wonder what the result of decisions made today might be 30 years from now.
E-textbooks fit into that category.
