From a Washington Post story by Courtland Milloy headlined “”Surviving Deep Waters’: A Black TV reporter takes a long dive into D.C. news”:
In his memoir, “Surviving Deep Waters,” Johnson, 71, writes about growing up poor and without a father in Louisville….At 14, he left home to study at a seminary. But he gave up on the priesthood, because “I was also drawn to those things that most 15-year-old boys crave: girls.”