Stephen Henderson is a native Detroiter who has more than 30 years of journalism experience as a writer and editor, and a deep-rooted connection with the city that birthed him.
A winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Henderson has also won more than two dozen other national awards for writing and editing. He was honored in 2014 as Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and University of Detroit Jesuit High School.
Henderson is a founder of BridgeDetroit, a non-profit news organization that prioritizes issues that Detroiters themselves identify as critical. He is also the founder of The Tuxedo Project, a literary arts and community center located in Henderson’s childhood home.
He hosts the daily radio show “Created Equal” on WDET 101.9FM, Detroit’s public radio station, and is involved in two weekly shows on Detroit PBS. Henderson is the host of “American Black Journal” and regularly contributes to “One Detroit.”
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