John Henry Smith
Host, All Things ConsideredJohn Henry Smith is Connecticut Public’s host of All Things Considered, its flagship afternoon news program. In his 20th year as a professional broadcaster, he’s covered both news and sports.
Before coming to Connecticut Public, John Henry served as Sports Director for NBC Connecticut and as a Public Relations Specialist for Baldwin Media in New Britain.
Earlier in his career, John Henry spent a year-and-a-half as a news anchor and reporter for News 12 Networks. While there, he won a Deadline Award for his breaking news coverage of a shooting at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital. He’s also worked in various roles across the country, including as a morning show reporter and anchor for nationally broadcast Al Jazeera America in New York City, as a sports reporter in the San Francisco Bay Area for Comcast Sports Net Bay Area, and as a sports anchor Raleigh, Miami, and New Orleans.
John is a 1990 graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga. He worked as a Financial Analyst in the banking industry before getting a M.B.A. from the University of Rochester (New York) and going to work for Eli Lilly and Company. He also earned his masters degree from Syracuse University in 1999.
John was born in San Francisco, CA and raised in Detroit, Mich. He and his wife, Belinda, have a daughter, Isabella.
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The state Department of Public Health on Tuesday reported the first case of monkeypox in Connecticut. -
After New Haven resident Randy Cox suffered paralysis-inducing injuries in the back of a New Haven police van, Connecticut NAACP President Scot X. Esdaile spoke about the situation on All Things Considered.
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The end of nationwide constitutionally protected abortion rights is a cause for celebration for groups that want to end abortion. One such prominent Connecticut group is the Family Institute of Connecticut.
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Before the Supreme Court ruled that there is no constitutional right to abortion, Connecticut lawmakers who support abortion rights took steps they say will ensure that women in the state will still be able to obtain the procedure.
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Last weekend, from the east coast to the west coast and here in Connecticut, tens of thousands of people protested against gun violence in the wake of our latest spate of mass shooting murders.
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Connecticut U.S. Senator Chris Murphy said the Senate has reached a bipartisan agreement that will yield at least 10 republican votes for federal gun legislation.
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The Town of Wethersfield has enacted a series of ordinances aimed at so-called "panhandlers" — i.e., people who ask random people in public for money. Wethersfield mayor Michael Rell says the ordinances seek to keep panhandlers from interfering with traffic flow, from misrepresenting themselves to get donations, and from engaging in other prohibited conduct — e.g., aggressive behavior.
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A new study estimates that 28-percent of corporate and federal spending nationwide meant for minority and women-owned businesses is actually going to companies fronting for white-male owned firms.
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As we process the latest spate of mass shootings in this country, a Connecticut doctor who was on stand-by, but sadly not needed, to treat victims in the Sandy Hook murders 10 years ago says any one can learn to keep severe trauma victims from bleeding-to-death.
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The police who responded first to the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, are under heavy criticism for waiting nearly an hour to force their way into the classroom where a shooter was still a threat and the wounded needed aid. To talk about how those officers' actions did or did not mesh with protocols here in Connecticut, Brian Foley of the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection joined "All Things Considered."
