Ken Blackwell

Senior Fellow for Human Rights and Constitutional Governance

Ken Blackwell is the Senior Fellow for Human Rights and Constitutional Governance at the Family Research Council.  He is a national bestselling author of three books: Rebuilding America: A Prescription For Creating Strong Families, Building The Wealth Of Working People, And Ending Welfare; The Blueprint: Obama’s Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency; and Resurgent: How Constitutional Conservatism Can Save America.

He serves on the Board of Directors of various high-profile organizations including the Timothy Plan, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, the United States Air Force Academy Foundation, the Club for Growth, Grove City College, the National Rifle Association, the First Liberty Institute, the National World War II Museum, and the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Board of Advisors, of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA).

Mr. Blackwell has had a vast political career. He was mayor of Cincinnati, Treasurer and Secretary of State for Ohio, undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. He was a delegate to the White House Summit on Retirement Savings in 1998 and 2002. During the 1990s, he served on the congressionally appointed National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform and the board of the International Republican Institute. He was Co-Chairman of the U.S. Census Monitoring Board from 1999-2001.

He has received many awards and honors for his work in the public sector. These accolades include the U.S. Department of State’s Superior Honor Award for his work in the field of human rights which he received from both the administrations of Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. In 2004, the American Conservative Union honored Mr. Blackwell with the John M. Ashbrook Award for his steadfast conservative leadership.

Ken’s commentaries have been published in major newspapers and websites: The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, and Investor’s Business Daily.  In addition, he has been interviewed by many media outlets including CBS’s Face the Nation, NBC’s Meet the Press, ABC’s This Week, and Fox News Sunday.

His continuing education has included executive programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard. Mr. Blackwell has also received honorary doctoral degrees from ten institutions of higher education. He holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Education degrees from Xavier University in Ohio, where he later served as a vice president and member of its faculty. In 1992, he received Xavier’s Distinguished Alumnus Award and was inducted into Xavier's Athletic Hall of Fame in 2015.

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Black History as American History

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Big Tech's Assault On Patent Rights!

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Election Integrity Reform Is Key to Preventing A Socialist Takeover of America

Stopping Election Integrity Reform a Key to Socialist Takeover

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Republicans Will Own Inflation from Infrastructure Trap

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Beyond Election Integrity: American Exceptionalism in Crosshairs of Radical Left

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The Left's Hoodwinking of America

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Stop The Socialist Power Grab, Deal with Supreme Court Disappointments Later

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The 'Equality Act' Would Create a Religious 'Separate But Equal'

Ken Blackwell Reflects on the Life and Legacy of Rush Limbaugh

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Impeachment Manager Rep. Jamie Raskin Wrong on 1st Amendment and Trump Speech

Election Integrity: The Case For Trump's Acquittal

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Critical Race Theory Cynically Undermines Racial Harmony

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Presidential Promises Kept: Justice Barrett Will Fairly Apply and Honor the Law for Decades

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Signed, Sealed, and Delivered

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The New York Times' Dark History of Slave Ownership

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Memo to Congress: Everyone Benefits From Health Care Price Transparency

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Stimulate job growth, not the printing press, in next COVID relief package

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Lawlessness, The Murder of Our Children and The Soul of America

Black Lives Don't Matter To Black Lives Matter

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A Focused Coalition Is Primed to Uproot Iran's Despots

Democrats Have Failed the Black Community for Too Long

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Yes, drug manufacturing needs to return home, but don't jeopardize US leadership by going overboard

Race, Justice and Religious Liberty In the World

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America, Not China, Must Achieve 5G Leadership

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COVID-19 and International Best Practices for Free, Fair and Safe Elections

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New Sanctions Turn the Screws on Venezuela's Maduro

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Don't forget Justice Clarence Thomas in Black History Month celebrations

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Free Speech Triumphs at the University of Michigan

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The Democrats' Misguided War on Faith

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Abortion proponents' attack on faith community: Why the religious bigotry?

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Opinion: President Trump has delivered for African Americans

Ken Blackwell on President Trump's Comments

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Why Do Democrats Have a Secret List of Supreme Court Nominees?

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A Disturbing Glimpse Into The Manufacturing of Fake News

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The left's hate campaigns against Trump nominees

Carson fights discrimination on Facebook, Democrats flack for Big Tech

Ken Blackwell on Presidents Affecting the Economy

Ken Blackwell Speaks at YAF Reagan Ranch March Conference

BLACKWELL: IT'S MORNING AGAIN FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN AMERICA

Avoiding anti-religious decision-making

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Kavanaugh Soars Over Keystone Kop Democrats

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Equal Accountability Needed for All Firms Listed on U.S. Exchanges

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Citizenship Matters

Dems refuse to recognize Trump's first-rate federal court picks

Anita Hill's Defense of Bill Clinton Would Be a Joke Today

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Every Vote Really Does Count

Sessions' First Year: A Breath of Fresh Air After Years of Obama Scandals

All Hat, No Decency

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Historical Revisionism

'Sanctuary Cities' Aren't Brave. They're Harboring Criminals.

Trump's Attorney General Jeff Sessions is bringing the hammer down on leaks

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The First 100 Days to Securing America

How the market can fix health care

Judge Gorsuch Is A Mainstream Constitutionalist

Donald Trump Won the Respect Vote

A media noose for Jeff Sessions

Ken Blackwell on Meet the Press

Does the Constitution contain Stem Cells?