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Magic Johnson Kicks Off HIV Awareness Campaign

Posted on March 26, 2013 by | 2 Comments

Magic+SpeaksAbout 250,000 people in the US have HIV and don’t know it. These people are unknowingly responsible for up to 75% of new infections. Almost half of new infections are among African Americans. Continue reading →

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Mayme Hatcher Johnson, Wife Of Harlem’s “Bumpy” Johnson

Posted on January 25, 2013 by | Leave a comment
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Mayme Hatcher Johnson, a native of North Carolina who spent most of her life in Harlem. Mrs. Johnson was born in 1914 in NC, and moved to New York City in 1938, where she found work as a waitress in a club owned by singer/actress Ethel Waters. Continue reading →

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Magic And Isiah, Drop Their Guard Become ‘Friends’ Again

Posted on January 16, 2013 by | Leave a comment

magic johnson and isiah thomasIt’s just a tweet, a silly characterization of a person’s mood in 140 characters or less, and possibly something we shouldn’t spend more than three seconds considering before moving on to more weightier matters. Like dunks or draft picks in June, I suppose. Continue reading →

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Harlem’s Tap-Dancing College Student

Posted on October 15, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Joshua Johnson, the college student from Harlem whose tuition-paying subway-tap-dance exploits we wrote about last winter, was back in the limelight this week. Continue reading →

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Magic Johnson: Test for HIV in ‘Your Own Home’ (video)

Posted on October 11, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Ervin “Magic” Johnson, the former NBA Most Valuable Player and HIV/AIDS advocate, is the face of first over-the-counter HIV test. Continue reading →

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Fab 5: Johnson, James, Anthony, Wade & Obama!

Posted on August 9, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Hell of a starting 5!!!  To cap off his 49th birthday week President Obama hosted a basketball game on Sunday in Washington D.C. alongside some of the greats to entertain troops who have been wounded in war.

Obama is said to have stayed in the gym for about 2 hours but no reporters were allowed in because the Prez just wanted to play.

Some have said that the president is out of touch with the American people. Harlem, do you thing the president in touch or out of touch with the American people?

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HW’s Black History Month

Posted on February 4, 2009 by | 1 Comment

king_johnson“In conjunction with the civil rights movement, Johnson overcame southern resistance and convinced Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed most forms of racial segregation. Johnson signed it into law on July 2, 1964.

Legend has it that, as he put down his pen, Johnson told an aide, “We have lost the South for a generation,” anticipating accoming backlash from Southern whites against Johnson’s Democratic Party. Continue reading →

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