OHN JOHNSON has been a correspondent and anchor for WABC News, and an anchor and senior correspondent for WCBS and WNBC. He has won numerous awards and honors, including eight Emmy Awards. Before his distinguished career in broadcast journalism he was a teacher, an assistant principal, and an associate professor of fine arts at Lincoln University. Johnson is an accomplished painter and still exhibits his work. He lives in upstate New York.

John Johnson was an Emmy-award winning anchorman and prominent journalist in an industry with few African-Americans. When his father was diagnosed with lung cancer, Johnson gave up his career to take care of a man who had regularly beat him as a child. Find out why he did it and hear Johnson's thoughts on fathers and sons. Plus: does the stock market have a hangover or a disease? How is Hong Kong doing five years after the handover to China? And should parents have regular performance appraisals?