Writer

Kenneth Best

Ken Best served as editor of UCONN Magazine for 10 years. He is a co-host of the UConn 360 Podcast. He previously covered news and sports in Connecticut for The New York Times, edited the Weekend section for the Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time, wrote arts and culture stories syndicated by the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service and was the media coordinator for Yale-New Haven Hospital. During the summer of 2015 he hosted “Walking a Blues Road,” a weekly program on WHUS in Storrs based on the holdings of the Samuel and Ann Charters Archives of Blues and Vernacular African-American Musical Culture at UConn’s Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. He is the author of Eight Days a Week: An Illustrated Record of Rock ‘n’ Roll (Pomegranate Books).

Email: Kenneth.Best@uconn.edu

Author Archive

A photo from a production of "American Dreams," a dark theatrical comedy about what it means to be an American citizen, being presented online by the Dodd Center

Dodd Impact Hosts ‘American Dreams’ Online

Dodd Human Rights Impact is relaunching with an online presentation of a dark theatrical comedy about what it means to be an American citizen.

October 26, 2020 | Kenneth Best - UConn Communications

A protester holding a placard saying 'We The People' in front of the U.S. Capitol Building. (Getty Images)

Study of 2020 Protests Shows Difference Between Reality and Perception

Political science professor Jeremy Pressman, co-founder of The Crowd Counting Consortium (CCC), discusses the CCC's latest study on 2020 protests.

October 16, 2020 | Kenneth Best - UConn Communications

Police with batons attack pro-democracy demonstrators in Belarus.

New Study Examines Civil Society’s Effect on Mass Violence

UConn researcher Evan Perkoski discusses his work examining the role civil society can play in preventing - or perpetrating - mass killings.

October 14, 2020 | Kenneth Best - UConn Communications

Actors rehearse via Zoom for CRT's Fall production of "Men On Boats"

Connecticut Repertory Theatre Fall Season Goes Live Online with ‘Men on Boats’

The Connecticut Repertory Theatre is adjusting to the pandemic by presenting the start of its Fall season online, with two plays available to watch via Zoom.

October 8, 2020 | Kenneth Best - UConn Communications

Statue outside the Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C. (iStock Photo)

Q&A: The Supreme Court, the Presidential Election, and a Year Unlike Any Other

UConn's David Yalof, an expert on the Supreme Court and presidential politics, talks about how this year's situation is like, and unlike, past moments of US history.

October 6, 2020 | Kenneth Best - UConn Communications

Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument is a monument to Civil War soldiers and sailors. Located in the southeast quadrant of Public Square in downtown Cleveland, it opened July 4, 1894. Cleveland, Ohio, USA

UConn Scholars to Address Issue of Historic Monuments

A multidisciplinary seminar via Zoom at UConn will look at the politically charged issue of historical monuments.

September 23, 2020 | Kenneth Best - UConn Communications

Pinkney “Pink” Anderson with his son Alvin, known as “Little Pink,” at their South Carolina home in 1962 when they appeared in the film “The Blues,” made by Samuel and Ann Charters.

Documentary Tracks Charters ‘Searching for Secret Heroes’ of Blues Music

A new documentary focuses on a legendary early 1960s film made by Sam Charters and UConn professor emerita Ann Charters about American blues musicians.

September 21, 2020 | Kenneth Best - UConn Communications