Occupation Journalist Height 1.68 m | Role Journalist Name Don Lemon Parents Katherine Clark | |
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Residence New York City, New York Awards Emmy AwardEdward R. Murrow Award Books Transparent, Everybody's Scrap Book of Curious Facts: A Book for Odd Moments Similar People Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer, Erin Burnett, Sunny Hostin, T J Holmes Profiles | ||
Don lemon on black lives matter and uncle tom accusation
Don Lemon (born March 1, 1966) is an American news anchor and journalist. He is based in New York City and currently hosts CNN Tonight.
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- Don lemon on black lives matter and uncle tom accusation
- Lemon Youre the one who is not answering the
- Early life
- Professional life
- Personal life
- Honors and awards
- Published works
- References
Lemon: 'You're the one who is not answering the...
Early life
Lemon was born in 1966 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was educated at Baker High School, a public high school in the small city of Baker in East Baton Rouge Parish. He majored in broadcast journalism at Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York, and attended Louisiana State University. While in college, Lemon worked as a news assistant at WNYW in New York City.
Professional life
In his earliest career, Lemon reported as a weekend anchor for WBRC in Birmingham, Alabama, and WCAU in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as well as an anchor and investigative reporter for KTVI St. Louis.
Lemon reported for NBC News' New York City operations, including working as a correspondent for Today and NBC Nightly News and an anchor on Weekend Today and MSNBC. In 2003, he began at NBC O&O station WMAQ-TV (5 in Chicago), and was a reporter as well as local news co-anchor.
Lemon joined CNN in September 2006. He has been outspoken in his work at CNN, criticizing the state of cable news and questioning the network publicly. He has also voiced strong opinions on ways that the African-American community can improve themselves, which has caused some controversy. Since 2014, he has hosted CNN's New Year's Eve special from New Orleans.
Personal life
During an on-air interview with members of Bishop Eddie Long's congregation in September 2010, Lemon said that he was a victim of sexual abuse as a child, and that it was not until he was thirty years old that he told his mother about it.
In his memoir, Transparent, Lemon came out as gay and discusses colorism in the black community, and the sexual abuse he suffered as a child. He has Creole ancestry (his great-grandfather was of French descent) in addition to Nigerian, Cameroonian, and Congolese ancestry. In 2015, over 30,000 people signed a petition demanding that Lemon be fired from CNN following a controversial remark he made regarding police behavior.
Honors and awards
Lemon won an Emmy Award for a special report on the real estate market in Chicago. He received an Edward R. Murrow Award for his coverage of the capture of the D.C. area sniper, and a number of other awards for reports on Hurricane Katrina, and the AIDS epidemic in Africa.
Lemon was voted as one of the 150 most influential African-Americans by Ebony magazine in 2009. However, in 2014 Lemon was named in a list of worst journalists by the Columbia Journalism Review.