by Joseph Williams

Earvin “Magic” Johnson wants to spread the word to Black Gen Z’ers — especially those who think HIV/AIDS is no big deal because an NBA legend like him has lived with it for more than three decades. Although it is no longer a death sentence, he says, it’s still killing Black people, and should be taken seriously.

By making it to his 66th birthday, “I was the curse and good for the disease,” said Johnson during his keynote speech Friday at the National Minority AIDS/HIV Conference in Washington, D.C. “They saw me, and then they saw that I had been living this long life. But then they said, ‘Oh, if I get HIV, I’m gonna be good, because Magic is good.’ And we can’t look at it like that.”

The data backs up his warning: Black people represent around 13% of the U.S. populati

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