John Johnson started painting as a child when his mother let him use their apartment walls as a canvas and a refuge from the streets of Bedford Stuyvesant, NY. He studied art in high school, college and graduate school. While he was a fine arts professor, his essay Super Black Man, was published in an anthology. ABC News offered John a job where he became the first African American documentary producer, director and writer at a broadcast network. He was one of the first black filmmakers in the Directors Guild of America. John then became a network...more
