Henry De Bernardo was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1950. He received his elementary and secondary education there. He graduated BA from Holy Cross College outside Boston, MA in 1973, on the Dean’s List. He studied law at Howard University and Temple University in Washington and Philadelphia, respectively, from 1973 through 1974.

Mr. De Bernardo marked his career as an “inner city activist” in Philadelphia early-on; as early as 1974, after leaving professional school. He worked closely with activists of similar stripe, like Milton Street and Charlie ‘Boo’ Burris, in the housing field. He worked closely with the city government to place homeless families in vacant government-owned houses. He was involved in many other social movements over the next 20 years.

Henry De Bernardo has been a professional writer and news reporter f r the last 21 years and has written many articles even before then. He initially worked for the Philadelphia New Observer Newspaper (80,000 weekly circulation) for 15 years, beginning in 1985. He compiled a huge inventory of over 3,000 news, features, and opinion columns in that time for the paper. In 2001 he left the Observer to launch his own national newspaper, called the BlackStar, which is still in circulation in a half-dozen cities, mainly in Philadelphia and Atlanta, GA.

Mr. De Bernardo has also worked in radio-television markets in Philadelphia and Delaware, compiling an inventory of several hundred recorded AM radio shows from 1974 through 2001 and well as television show tapes dating from 2001-2005. He has written seven unpublished manuscripts, including essays, documentaries, and fiction.