About Ken

Ken Bedell moderated a panel discussion about the role of religious communicators in supporting civil rights at the Religion Communicators Council (RCC) meeting in Atlanta, Georgia from April 5-7, 2018.

Participants in the panel were Dr. Robert M. Franklin Jr., Yvette Moore, Kemal Budak, Rev. Dr. Kenneth Bedell (photo by Andy and Malinda Rawls)

Click Read more below to see a full report on the panel discussion written by Douglas F. Cannon, Ph.D., APR+M, Fellow PRSA

Note: This article originally appeared in the January 2018 edition of the Newsletter of Global Peace Services USA.

The President’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge—What I Learned

Kenneth Bedell

On February 5, 2009 one of Barack Obama’s first acts as president was to amend and reissue President G. W

The student newspaper at Georgetown University, THE GEORGETOWN VOICE, reported on an event hosted by the Berkley Center on Civil Rights.

Austin Corona described the presentation by Ken Bedell and the discussion that followed.

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Ken Bedell earned his doctorate in sociology at Temple University. Before that he earned graduate degrees in education at New York University, in theology at the University of South Africa and Colgate Rochester/Crozer Divinity School, and in chemistry at Cornell University.

Ken was elected to the board of directors of

​This website is managed by Ken Bedell as a place to discuss and expand the ideas in his book, Realizing the Civil Rights Dream: Diagnosing and Treating American Racism. Click on Read More for a full biographical sketch.