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Urban Connections
Urban Connections conducts guest interviews covering issues effecting our local, national, international and global communities from a Black perspective. Subjects include current events, trends, history, education, economics, science, political science, health, race, law and more.
Independent journalist, author, lecturer, educator Lewis W. Diuguid talks about the “Great Replacement Theory” and other hard-right ideas.
Lewis Diuguid is a St. Louis native and worked more than 39 years as a journalist with The Kansas City Star, rising to vice president of community resources responsible for the newspaper’s philanthropic and outreach efforts in the community. He wrote an award-winning column for The Kansas City Star for 30 years and served on the editorial board from 1999 to 2016. He is the recipient of many awards, including the 2000 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism and the 2017 Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism from Harvard University. His books include, “Our Fathers: Making Black Men” (2017), “Discovering the Real America: Toward a More Perfect Union” (2007) and “A Teacher’s Cry: Expose the Truth About Education Today” (2004). He also is chair of the Political Action Committee for the National Association for Multicultural Education.
Host/producer: Donna Morrow Wolfe
