American Black Journal is a window into American history through the lens of Black history and topics that impact African Americans today. For more than 50 years, “American Black Journal” has featured through-provoking and community-focused stories about African American arts and culture, youth and urban issues, Black business and entrepreneurship, racial injustice, and more.

Our Host

Stephen Henderson is the current host of American Black Journal, WDET’s Detroit Today and former Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial page editor of The Detroit Free Press. A Detroit native, Henderson is a graduate of University of Detroit Jesuit High School and the University of Michigan. He has worked previously as a reporter, editorial writer and editor at the Baltimore Sun, the Chicago Tribune and the Knight Ridder Washington bureau, where he covered the Supreme Court from 2003-2007. Henderson’s work has been honored with more than a dozen national awards, including for work that is published in the book, “Best Newspaper Writing 2001.” In 2014, Henderson won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Follow him on Twitter: @SHDetroit.

 

 

Our Producer

American Black Journal is produced by Daphne Hughes. Hughes is a former News Manager and Producer/Writer at WDIV-TV and Senior Communications Specialist at Mort Crim Communications, Inc. She has produced several television programs, including a half-hour Detroit Public Television show focusing on The Skillman Foundation’s “Good Schools in Detroit” initiative and a 13-part series on the Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries, which aired on WDIV.