Henry captured top honors in two of the three Griot Award categories for major market newspapers. In the General News category, she was honored for her story "Academy of Dreams" [April 11], which exposed the fraudulent past of a man who was soliciting money from Dallas parents, supposedly to establish a private school for black youths. Former Observer staff writer Denise McVea was also a finalist in that category.
Henry was also honored in the Feature category for "Clara's Last Supper" [May 16], a look at the hard times that have befallen Dallas' onetime soul food queen. The Dallas Morning News also had two finalists in that category.