Host, DPTV, Detroit Public Television
Regional Judge

Stephen Henderson is host of the weekly talk show “American Black Journal" and a contributor to "One Detroit," both on Detroit Public Television. He is also the executive advisor for BridgeDetroit, a nonprofit news and engagement organization focused on issues that Detroiters identify as important to their lives. Previously, he was the editorial page editor and a columnist for the Detroit Free Press.

Henderson worked as a reporter, editorial writer and editor at The Baltimore Sun, the Chicago Tribune, the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader and the Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau, where he covered the U.S. Supreme Court from 2003 to 2007.

Henderson’s work has been honored with more than a dozen national awards, including the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, the 2014 Scripps Howard Award, the 2001 ASNE writing award for editorials, several National Headliner Awards and two Sigma Delta Chi prizes. He was also the National Association of Black Journalists’ pick for Journalist of the Year in 2014.

He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and a former editorial page editor of The Michigan Daily, the school’s 125-year-old daily student newspaper.