Month: March 2018

Author to speak March 27 at library

Lewis Diuguid

Lewis Diuguid, author of “Our Fathers: Making Black Men,” will speak at the Next Chapter Kansas City Forum at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, at the West Wyandotte Branch of the Kansas City, Kansas, Public Library, 1737 N. 82nd St., Kansas City, Kansas.

Diuguid, a St. Louis native, worked for the Kansas City Star from 1977 through 2016. He will speak about his book and present suggestions for writing a memoir.

His book, published in 2017, received the Philip C. Chinn Book Award from the National Association for Multicultural Education at its international conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Diuguid is a St. Louis native and a May 1977 graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism. He started working in 1977 for The Kansas City Star-Times as a reporter-photographer. He was a columnist for the newspaper from 1987 to 2016.

He served as vice president for community resources responsible for the newspaper’s philanthropic and outreach efforts from 1999 to 2009. He served on the editorial board from 1999 to 2016, resigning from the newspaper as a columnist, op-ed page editor, letters editor, editorial writer and blogger.

Diuguid is a founding member, newsletter editor and president of the Kansas City Association of Black Journalists. He is a longtime member of the National Association of Black Journalists, the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, the Trotter Group of Black Voices in Commentary and the National Association for Multicultural Education.

He serves on boards at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the University of Kansas schools of journalism. Diuguid’s newspaper career includes being on the team at The Kansas City Star that won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting.

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 latest book published in 2017 is “Our Fathers: Making Black Men.” In November 2017, it received the Philip C. Chinn Book Award from the National Association for Multicultural Education at its international conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Next Chapter Kansas City’s purpose is to develop meaningful opportunities for persons 50 and over as they explore options for work, service, and learning in life’s next chapter. Next Chapter Kansas City is a program of Shepherd’s Center of Kansas City, Kansas, and partner organizations.

– Information from Kansas City, Kansas, Public Library

Car chase ends with arrest on Kaw Drive

A car chase that started in Kansas City, Missouri, ended with an arrest Tuesday evening at South 78th and Kaw Drive in Kansas City, Kansas.

At one point a suspect drove the wrong way on Kaw Drive.

The chase started with the armed robbery of an individual at Linwood and Prospect in Kansas City, Missouri, around 5 p.m. Tuesday, said Kansas City, Missouri, police public information officer Darin Snapp. The suspect had a gun.

Kansas City, Missouri, police officers observed the suspect’s vehicle and chased it, according to the spokesman. At one point, near I-70 and Broadway in Kansas City, Missouri, the suspect’s vehicle sideswiped another vehicle, he said.

The chase went into Kansas City, Kansas, where the Kansas Highway Patrol took over the pursuit, which ended near South 78th and Kaw Drive, he said.

The suspect was taken into custody by troopers and the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department, he said. The Missouri police officers then went to the scene to identify the suspect.

The original description of the incident was a carjacking, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol, which is one of the reasons they became involved.

The Kansas Highway Patrol became involved in the chase after the suspect drove into Kansas on I-670, and troopers decided to employ a tactical vehicle intervention technique on Kaw Drive, said Trooper C. Suther, who was a passenger in the KHP car that did the vehicle intervention technique. The trooper’s vehicle approached the suspect’s vehicle from the side, started to merge over slowly, then touched the back fender and applied pressure until the suspect’s vehicle spun around, he said.

The officers considered using stop sticks on westbound I-70 near the railroad yard, but because traffic was heavy, they were unable to deploy them, he said.

Later, the suspect drove the wrong way in rush-hour traffic on Kaw Drive for a half-mile or less, he said.

After the tactical vehicle intervention, the troopers did a felony traffic stop, and gave the driver verbal commands that he complied with. The suspect was placed into custody without incident, he said.

There were no injuries in connection with the incident, according to Trooper Suther and the Kansas City, Missouri, police spokesman.