Kansas City Star: Lewis W. Diuguid

Kansas City must fight prejudices developed over time

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:56 CDT

A successful effort to revive Kansas City’s downtown and neighborhoods must first address more than a century of laws and practices designed to keep people fearful and separated.

Benefits outweigh losses for downtown dweller

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:29 CDT

Living in downtown Kansas City promises to keep getting better for new and old pioneers who call it home.

DIUGUID: Lessons learned from those living with AIDS

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:08 CDT

Few people want to talk about HIV/AIDS. Some tireless folks try. But HIV/AIDS should be a hot topic until a cure is found.

Writer gives audiences a lot to think about

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:30 CDT

Heads of passers-by turned as T.J. Strong led the actors through warm-up voice, diction and projection exercises at the Bethany Community Center in Kansas City, Kan.

Kansas City area Hispanics often live in a divided world

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:41 CDT

The immigration surge into the Kansas City area has changed the way Monica Bustamante views life and herself.

Playing with the kids means bumps and bruises

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:38 CDT

Volunteering during a Day of Caring for the United Way of Greater Kansas City turned into a week of hobbling for the old guy that I have become.

Groundbreaking work on white privilege

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:22 CDT

I hope that in another 20 years the sharing grows so that Peggy McIntosh’s earth-moving work on on white privilege will just be a historical footnote, making everyone wonder how we could possibly have been so clueless.

Investments in education spur more giving

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:16 CDT

Excellence in philanthropy and in education doesn’t happen by accident. Caring adults make it possible through their kindness, good deeds and hard work.

At a KC coffee shop, a men's group weighs the presidential candidates

Tue, 27 May 2008 20:48 CDT

The pack of people running for president has thinned in the year since a Wednesday morning Brookside men’s coffee group told me what they’d like to see in a good candidate.

Memo to Hillary Clinton: Please don't quit

Tue, 20 May 2008 21:32 CDT

The pundits and political operatives repeatedly have professed that Hillary Clinton would do more harm than good to the party if she doesn't surrender now. But I say to her: Don't quit.

Cosby's message gains strength when put in context

Tue, 13 May 2008 21:29 CDT

Our nation would be a better place if everyone heeded what actor and comedian Bill Cosby shares in his new book, co-written with Alvin F. Pouissaint, Come On People: On the Path From Victims to Victors.

Race now an uncomfortable part of Obama's campaign

Tue, 06 May 2008 21:09 CDT

White candidates such as Hillary Clinton and John McCain have to emphasize race to win black votes but run race neutral with whites. They have the luxury of turning race on and off. Barack Obama does not.

Social engagement lost in our high-tech world

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:41 CDT

Social engagement and three-dimensional conversations get lost in our accelerating, electronic, high-tech consumption and so does an open acceptance of others.