Journalist, author Lewis W. Diuguid on our second “Gilded Age”, a nation of “me”

Says Lewis Diuguid: “…the nation now is..so divided…with a huge disparity of wealth…similar to the first Gilded Age. We turned into a nation of  me vs. being a nation of we. We are in a second Gilded Age…”

Lewis W. Diuguid is a multimedia consultant, lecturer, freelance writer and editor, certified diversity facilitator. He is a former columnist, editorial board member, op-ed page editor, and letters editor at The Kansas City Star, as well as a published author. He 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.

Diuguid is a member of the National Association Black Journalists, Kansas City Association of Black Journalists (president 1986, secretary 1987, vice president 1993, treasurer since 1994), National Society Newspaper Columnists, Monroe Trotter Group of Black Voices in Commentary. He serves as chair of the Political Action Committee for the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), which honored him with the Carter G. Woodson Service Award in 2014.

Books by Lewis W. Diuguid:
• Exploring Cuba: Erasing Fears through Multicultural Education [with Bette Tate-Beaver]
• Our Fathers: Making Black Men
• Discovering the Real America: Toward a More Perfect Union
• A Teacher’s Cry: Expose the Truth about Education Today

Host/producer/engineer: Donna Morrow Wolfe

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