has appeared on over 25 talk shows and news programs, including the Ricki Lake Show, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher (formerly on the ABC Network and NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. He is an outstanding media personality whose award winning books, critically acclaimed and Off-Broadway produced plays, nationally syndicated columns, popular appearances on the lecture and media circuit has attracted an audience surpassing the demographic regularity of ten million viewers, listeners, readers, theatergoers and live event attendees. Interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer as well as 50 other publications, Henderson has been acknowledged and honored for his contribution to the promotion and marketing of underground urban culture to the mainstream.
Recipient of the Promoter of the Year Award at the Harlem Literary and Arts Conference, he has been recognized by the American Poetry Center, the American Booksellers Association, the Library of Congress' Center for the Book, Your Black Books Guide, the American Biographical Institute, which recently bestowed upon him the Researcher of the Year" Award by Time-Life Books, which has chronicled his cultural studies research as a feature for the Leadership Volume of the Encyclopedia series "African Americans: Voices of Triumph."