“Just one generation before me, my father, born in Mississippi, returned home from his service in the Korean War only to be told he could not vote, because he was Black,” Stephen Henderson writes.
Stephen Henderson
Stephen Henderson is the Project Executive for BridgeDetroit, co-host of One Detroit on Detroit PBS and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. A native of Detroit, Henderson is a graduate of University of Detroit High School and the University of Michigan. His resume includes stints at the Detroit Free Press, the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun, and four years covering the Supreme Court for Knight Ridder’s Washington Bureau.
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BridgeDetroit is 100 days old. Can you help us power our nonprofit newsroom for the weeks and years to come?
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At a time when credible news has never been more important, a new team of journalists aims to respond to Detroiters’ most crucial information needs.