JCCCvideo's video: Disinformation Civil Rights Protests and Social Justice

The session examines the role of the news media in amplifying implicit and explicit biases. It is not about "fake news" as the president wants people to believe but a more fundamental foundational problem in how the news is reported and by whom. *This project is funded by the Citizen Diplomacy Action Fund for U.S. Alumni, a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State with funding provided by the U.S. Government and administered by Partners of the Americas. Lewis Diuguid is a news media consultant, author, freelance writer and lecturer. He 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 (NAME). He serves as the chair of the Political Action Committee for NAME. He also serves on boards at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the University of Kansas schools of journalism. Diuguid is a St. Louis native and a May 1977 graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism. He started that same month working for The Kansas City Star-Times as a reporter/photographer. Diuguid is a 1984 graduate of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education’s Editing Program Fellowship at the University of Arizona-Tucson. He has been a columnist for The Kansas City Star from 1986 to 2016. He served as vice president for community resources at The Star and was 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. From 1993 to the present he has been a certified diversity facilitator. Diuguid is the recipient of many other 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.” His first book, “A Teacher’s Cry: Expose the Truth About Education Today,” was published in 2004. His second book, “Discovering the Real America: Toward a More Perfect Union,” was published in 2007. He and his partner, Bette Tate-Beaver, are currently working on a book about NAME’s cultural and professional exchanges in Cuba. For more information on this series, visit https://www.jccc.edu/conferences/peacebuilding/