A Pathbreaking Episode
Just a day after legendary basketball player Earvin “Magic: Johnson publicly announced that that he was HIV positive in 1991, he sat down for an interview on The Arsenio Hall Show to discuss it. It may have been an outlet for him to express his feelings, as Arsenio was his friend, but during the segment they also spoke about the many misconceptions and stigma around HIV/AIDS, which would kickstart Magic’s lifelong crusade for AIDS awareness and fighting the discrimination and the stigma that follows the disease.