Cookie and Magic Johnson and Spike Lee help fight HIV among blacks

by Mary Engel, Los Angeles Times

“Ladies,” said Cookie Johnson, looking straight into the camera, her husband’s arm draped across her shoulders. “Have you been tested . . . ”

” . . . for HIV?” finished Lakers basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson.

As the most prominent African American face of HIV, Johnson, who is now a businessman and philanthropist, has long used his fame to raise public awareness of the virus that causes AIDS.