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Angelo Henderson Working as deputy Detroit bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal, Angelo B. Henderson was honored with the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished feature writing. His dramatic narrative detailed the lives affected by an attempted drugstore robbery that ended in the robber’s death. The Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious award given for journalistic excellence, is presented annually by Columbia University in New York City. He is the 22nd African American to win this award since its inception in 1917. He joins the ranks of literary giants Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and the late Gwendolyn Brooks. In June 2000, Mr. Henderson was honored once again by Columbia University as one of the nation’s best reporters on race and ethnicity in America. He was among several journalists – including CBS News anchor Dan Rather – who presented their distinguished work to editors and broadcast executives who set newsroom agendas and can implement changes as part of Columbia’s Workshop on Journalism, Race and Ethnicity. The previous year’s honorees included Tom Brokaw, anchor, of NBC Nightly News and Michel McQueen, correspondent of ABC News Nightline. Mr. Henderson was named one of 39 African-Americans Achievers To Watch in the next millennium by SuccessGuide magazine. These were climbers in mid-career who are expected to make history and set the course for future generations. Mr. Henderson appeared alongside author/professor Michael Eric Dyson; Linda Johnson Rice, president and chief operating officer of Ebony Magazine’s Johnson Publishing Co.; Earl “Butch” Graves Jr., president and chief operating officer of publishers of Black Enterprise Magazine; District of Illinois Congressman Jesse L. Jackson Jr.; and National Public Radio talk-show host and commentator Tavis Smiley. In 2001, Mr. Henderson was inducted into the HistoryMakers, a non-profit institution committed to preserving, developing and providing access to an internationally recognized, archival collection of thousands of African-American oral histories. The purpose of this archive at www.thehistorymakers.com is to provide living proof that African American history did not begin or end with the civil rights movement, that the HistoryMakers number in the thousands and that their names are not just Harriet Tubman, W.E.B. DuBois, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ella Fitzgerald. Mr. Henderson became an ordained deacon at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in October 1998. In 2002, Mr. Henderson was awarded a diploma in Urban Ministry from the Ecumenical Theological Seminary in Detroit. In 2003, he was named worship leader and one of the Bible teachers for Youth Church at Hartford. He also served as a monthly bible study group home cell teacher. In addition, Mr. Henderson was one of the founding members of the Busters’ Committee, a ministry targeting people ages 18 to 35 and participated in the shaping and formation of an upbeat, spirited Saturday Night Worship in 1998, often serving as liturgist and a member of the Praise and Worship Team. Additionally, he was a member of the Jubilee Chorus for five years, as well as the Married Couples Ministry. Reverend Henderson was also a member of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church and the Jubilee Bible Project, a partnership with Grosse Pointe Memorial Church. Up until December 2003, Mr. Henderson was a special projects writer for The Detroit News and has worked for the St. Petersburg Times in Florida and the Courier Journal in Louisville, Kentucky. He has spent the last two decades as a journalist covering real estate, development, small business, minority business, economic development, courts and crime, developing reporting strategies that work in the corporate suites as well as in the urban streets. Mr. Henderson travels across the country lecturing and preaching. He has taken his message to organizations including the U.S. Department of Energy’s Small Business Conference in Orlando, the Nevada Purchasing Council in Las Vegas and national writing workshops in Hartford, Conn., Wilmington, Del., and Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. He’s also presented lectures to the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ workshop for high school journalism professors, high school journalism students in a summer program ran by the Asian American Journalists Association, the Freedom Forum’s Diversity Institute and numerous workshops at the national conventions of the National Association of Black Journalists. Mr. Henderson has held training seminars for newspapers including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Charlotte Observer, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Providence Journal. His other previous clients also represent various colleges, including Alabama State University, Brown University, Dartmouth College – the Amos Tuck School of Business, Indiana University Southeast, the University of Iowa and the University of Kentucky. In response to growing demand, Mr. Henderson became president of his own company, Angelo Ink L.C.C., a media-consulting firm that provides motivational speaking, media services, training and development to professional and aspiring journalists, corporate executives, support staff and civic organizations. He is currently working on his first book that will explore the concept of worship at work. In and around this city, Mr. Henderson is known as one of the voices of Detroit. He can be heard weekday mornings from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. on the popular radio talk show Inside Detroit on 1200-AM WCHB as a co-host with Mildred Gaddis. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in journalism in 1985 from the University of Kentucky and is a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. Mr. Henderson was licensed and ordained as a recognized member of the clergy by the state of Michigan in December 2003. In January 2004, Reverend Henderson was named Associate Pastor of Worship, Vision and Emerging Ministries at Hope United Methodist Church. His duties include:
His spiritual oversight includes: the Worship Committee; Mid-Week Worship, Ushers, Cross-Bearers of Hope, Music Department and Personnel, Health and Welfare, Church and Society and Hope Cell Group Ministries. His secondary responsibilities include:
Reverend Henderson will share general ministerial duties including: counseling, preaching, pastoral care as well as some administrative responsibilities. Mr. Henderson is married to Felecia Dixon Henderson, features editor at The Detroit News, who directs a 30-member department comprised of assigning editors, reporters, copy editors and editorial assistants. The couple and their son Angelo Grant reside in Pontiac, Michigan. |
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