In celebration of Women’s History Month, “American Black Journal” producer AJ Walker takes viewers to the Gilda Snowden Memorial Art Exhibit opening to see the works from local artists on display this year.
Stephen Henderson
Henderson is a native Detroiter who has nearly 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, and a two-time winner of both the Scripps Howard and ASNE national awards for opinion writing, Henderson has also won more than two dozen national awards for writing and editing. He was honored in 2014 as Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists.
Henderson’s wide-ranging career includes stints at the Chicago Tribune, where he was part of the team that built ChicagoTribune.com, at the Knight Ridder Washington bureau, where he covered the five terms at the U.S. Supreme Court, and at the Baltimore Sun, where his editorials won clemency in 2000 for a death row prisoner. Henderson also spent more than a decade at the Detroit Free Press, where he was the first African American to lead the paper’s editorial page and its first black Pulitzer winner.
Henderson is also the founder of The Tuxedo Project, a literary arts and community center located in the home where Henderson’s family lived when he was born.
He hosts a daily radio show on WDET 101.9FM, Detroit’s public radio station, and two weekly shows on Detroit Public Television.
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One Detroit: Michigan’s Teacher Shortage, State of Education Report, Detroit Pizza, Future of Work Town Hall
One Detroit Senior Producer Bill Kubota checks in with Chalkbeat Detroit Bureau Chief Lori Higgins, Craig Thiel, the research director at the Citizens Research Council of Michigan, and Tom Gantert, managing editor of Michigan Capitol Confidential, about Michigan’s teacher shortage, and its pupil shortage, as well as the recent lifting of mask mandates and what different districts across the state have decided to do with their own internal mandates.
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American Black Journal – Domestic Violence Calls Increase, Detroit Summer Jobs Program
Host Stephen Henderson sits down for an in-depth conversation with MiVida Burrus of HAVEN, a shelter that provides comprehensive services and programs for domestic violence and sexual assault victims.
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American Black Journal – Black Church Worship During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This week, “American Black Journal” continues its Black Church in Detroit series, in partnership with the Ecumenical Theological Seminary and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, with a look at how churches have adopted new ways to worship during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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One Detroit – Ramadan Market, Gilda Snowden Art Memorial, Lighthouse Restoration
It was a normal weekend in March for many Westland residents this past weekend, but for the Muslim community in western Wayne County, preparations for Ramadan are underway through a new Ramadan market featuring more than 20 makers, artisans and entrepreneurs.
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American Black Journal – Fisher Body Plant Redevelopment, Black Mothers Maternal Mortality Rate
One of Detroit’s long-abandoned auto plants, the Fisher Body Plant No. 21, may soon be transformed into housing and retail space.
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One Detroit – Ukraine Band DakhaBrakha, Kresge Eminent Artist, Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra
WRCJ 90.9FM Producer and host Peter Whorf sits down with Calderini to talk about the exciting changes that are coming for the symphony next season as well as the performances it still has left in its spring 2021-2022 season.
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One Detroit – Atlanta Spa Shooting, Author Rae Chesny, DakhaBrakha’s Protest Music
When a gunman killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent, last year in the Atlanta spa shooting, Zora Bowens called her best friend Ceena Vang to check in on how she was feeling.
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American Black Journal – Detroit United Front, Gilda Snowden Memorial Exhibit, Laura Rain & The Caesars
Stephen Henderson sits down with NBL CEO Ken Harris and DBCC President Danielle Benson to talk about the mission of Detroit United Front, as well as the need for education, training and capital resources.
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American Black Journal – Celebrating Black Female Trailblazers for Women’s History Month
For Women’s History Month, “American Black Journal” celebrates two African American women trailblazers, Michigan Court of Appeals Judge, the Hon. Cynthia Stephens and the late author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, whose accomplishments have paved the way for future generations of African Americans.