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- 2 days ago To celebrate Earth Day, CNN anchor Don Lemon posted a shirtless picture of himself soaking up the sun on a boat. The picture got plenty of Twitter users swooning on Thursday, April 22. In the photo, Lemon is wearing nothing but a red pair of shorts and some shades, staring into the ocean.
- CNN's Don Lemon soliloquizes with the grace of a mentally disabled hippopotamus and the skill of a sunbaked whale carcass. Tantrum-ing over Twitter's maste.
Don Lemon was born on March 1, 1996 in Baton Rouge Louisiana. He is known as an American journalist and a TV news anchor. Lemon’s career is based in the city of New York where he hosts the flagship show CNN Tonight.
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Background
Don Davis Lemon was born to Katherine Lemon Clark. He has two siblings, Yma Lemon and Leisa Lemon. He holds an American nationality and belongs to the African American ethnicity.
Don attended Baker High school which is a public high school that is located in the city of Baker. He then went to Brooklyn College where he majored in broadcast journalism. He also went to Louisiana University. When he was still in college, he was able to pick up work at the WNYW station as a news assistant.
Journalism Career
Don picked up a lot of early experience from working as a weekend anchor for the WCAU network based in Philadelphia. After his college graduation, he worked for KTVI St. Louis as an anchor and investigative reporter. He was also as an anchor for WBRC Birmingham based in Alabama as an anchor.
After leaving Alabama, he got started with NBC News as a reporter. He reported for NBC News’ New York City Operations and also worked as a correspondent for the popular shows, Today and NBC Nightly News. He also became an anchor for MSNBC and Weekend Today.
In 2003, he began to work at the NBC O&O station WMAQ-TV based in Chicago as a reporter and local news co-anchor. In September 2006, Don Lemon joined the CNN network and became one of their most famous anchors.
He has been an outspoken person in his CNN career. He has criticized the state of cable news and has even questioned his own network publicly. A controversy has also been raised by his strong opinions on ways that African Americans can try to improve themselves. 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.
Since 2014, he has hosted CNN's New Year's Eve special from New Orleans. Don Lemon has a very clear role in CNN where he hosts the weekday prime time program. He is also a correspondent across the many CNN platforms. He is one of the most notable people working at CNN today.
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He has had the chance to interview some of the most powerful people around the world including Rahm Emanuel after he got the chief of staff position for Barack Obama. He also interviewed a 106 year old voter named Anne Cooper who the Obama later highlighted during the acceptance speech after he saw Don Lemon’s interview with her on CNN.
Getting Inspiration From the Pastor
The Christian Post wrote a story about an interview that Don Lemon had on CNN. His own network tried to get deep with him because they wanted the world to have a better understanding of one of their most popular anchors. During the interview, Don Lemon spoke about how megachurch pastor Bishop T.D. Jakes of The Potter's House in Dallas, Texas was a major reason he became a famous journalist with a successful career.
Even though he never met the pastor in person, he still had a strong impact on Lemon’s life, 'It might sound strange, maybe even impossible, but the person who changed my life is someone I'd never even met. Through the power of his voice and his message, Bishop T.D. Jakes pulled me out of a crisis more than a decade ago and I wouldn't be where I am today if I hadn't heard his words.'
When he reached his goal of becoming a journalist, he became disheartened when he was limited to the scope of stories he was covering. He became tired of being a local news anchor and wanted more out of life, 'So I took a chance. I believe in taking chances. I took a chance from my big network gig and I went to Chicago to become a local news anchor. They told me when I came there that I would do the big stories and specials and that I would be the anchor and then I ended up knocking on people's doors and doing local 'How do you feel that your child is dead?' I said, I don't wanna do this. I took a stand for myself and I got suspended. I almost got fired. So I went to this really low place and I had to reach and find something to keep me alive, and at that low point I found T.D. Jakes.'
Paying attention the words of the pastor gave Don direction and the strength that he needed to make a change, 'My dream wasn't to go to a poor mother's house and say 'how do you feel that your kid is dead.' My dream was to make people and the world better through my work. You have to be fearless. How you do it? I think you just take one step at a time. When I went through what I went through in Chicago, as I would run on that path I would just say, 'one foot in front of the other.' Listening to T.D. Jakes I came to realize I had the power to change my situation.'
Victim of Sexual Abuse
In an interview in September 2010 with Bishop Eddie Long's congregation members, he openly declared that as a child, he had been a sexual abuse victim. He was only been able to tell his mother this fact when he was in his thirties. The abuse he had suffered as a child left a deep emotional scar in his mind and haunted him even through his late years. The trauma of sexual abuse was repeatedly referenced in his words and write ups.
In a memoir called Transparent, Lemon declared that he was gay and he also discussed the sexual abuse he suffered during his childhood. He wanted to show the gay community and sexual abuse victims that there was strength in speaking about themselves publicly.
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As far-left Black Lives Matter activists condemn an Ohio police officer for fatally shooting 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant to save a teenage black girl she was attempting to stab, CNN’s Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo agreed the officer did the right thing.
During a segment on Wednesday night, both Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon agreed that the evidence and body-cam video shows the police officer had little choice but to fire his gun in order to protect someone.
“We have to be fair about what happens when police arrive at scenes,” Lemon said, as reported by Newsbusters. “It is tragic that it’s a 16-year-old girl. Just as it is tragic that it’s a 13-year-old in Chicago. When police are chasing people, they don’t know how old they are. And they don’t run and say, ‘How old are you?’ ‘Oh, I’m 13.’ You don’t know that. Or, ‘I’m 16.'”
“When they roll up on the scene, they see people tussling around. Someone has a knife,” he continued. “And their job is to protect and serve. Every life on that scene. And if they see someone who is in the process of taking a life, what is that decision, what decision do they have to make?”
To those who would say the officer should have used a taser, both Lemon and Cuomo agreed that a taser would likely not have worked at that distance and in that amount of time.
“Tasers, they don’t always connect. So, you’ve got to get two prongs or what have you, and it has to connect to whatever,” said Lemon. “I see it, if the woman in the pink was my sister, niece, wife, whatever, you have to make a decision. Is one life on that scene more valuable than another? And if someone is trying to take a life, on that scene, do you protect the life of the person trying to take the life, or do you protect the life of the person whose life is in imminent danger at that point?”
Cuomo and Lemon expressed sympathy for the officer and that he must live with the fact that he killed a 16-year-old girl to protect someone else.
“I feel for the officer. You can hear it in his voice,” said Cuomo. “When he said – the man on the side was saying, ‘You shot my baby, you shot my baby.’ And he said, ‘She had a knife. She went right at her.’ You know, this is something that he’s going to have to live with also.”
Cuomo concluded that police are essential and that they do have to protect people at certain times.
“The analysis is only of the instant circumstances. I’m saying, if you want to have this contextual conversation that people seem to want to have about what else we can do, people fight with knives all the time, do we really need cops?” concluded Cuomo. “The answer is no, learn how to control your kids, and don’t be so violent and we won’t need cops. But that’s not our reality. And cops get called to our lives all the time for the worst situations.”
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