Angelo Henderson is a senior special writer for The Wall Street Journal. He reports to the paper's page- one desk in New York from the Detroit bureau.

In February 1995, Mr. Henderson joined the Journal as a reporter in Detroit, and in June 1997, he was named deputy bureau chief He assumed his current position in November 1998.

In August 1985, Mr. Henderson began his journalism career as a reporter at the St. Petersburg (FL) Times, covering the black community. He later become a business writer for the paper. He joined the Courier-Journal in Louisville, KY, in October 1986 as a business writer and moved to the Detroit News in 1989, working first as a reporter and later becoming a business writer/columnist.

In 1992, Mr. Henderson received the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Award for outstanding coverage of the Black condition. He is a member of the NABJ and served on the executive board as parliamentarian. He is also a member of the Detroit Chapter of NABJ.

A native of Kentucky, Mr. Henderson received a bachelor's degree from the University of Kentucky in Lexington. While at the university, he had internships in the Journal's Cleveland bureau, at WHAS-TV in Louisville, Kentucky at the Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader and at the Detroit Free Press.

Mr. Henderson and his wife, Felecia Dixon Henderson, have a son, Grant and live in Pontiac, Michigan. He is a deacon at the Hartford Memorial Baptist Church.