18 years of America's Racial Climate
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Awards & honors
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Emmy Award (Special Report of Chicago Real-Estate Market
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Edward R. Murrow
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Ebony Magazine's 150 Most Influential African-Americans (2009)
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Columbia Journalism Review Worst Journalism
don lemon
early life &
education
Don Lemon was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on March 1, 1966. He was born to his mother Katherine Clark and his father, who is known as Mr. Richardson. He has two sisters named Yma and Leisa.
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Don Lemon graduated from Baker High School. He then enrolled at Louisiana State University in 1984 where he did not finish his degree. In 1996, Lemon graduated with a degree in Broadcast Journalism from Brooklyn College. While in school Lemon worked at Channel 5 WNYW (New York) as a news assistant.
career
Early in his career Lemon began working as an anchor for WBRC in Birmingham, Alabama, and WCAU in Philadelphia. Then began to work as an anchor and investigative reporter for KTVI St. Louis.
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In 2003, Lemon moved up in ranks reporting for NBC News as a correspondant at Today and NBC Nightly News and an anchor on Weekend Today and MSNBC. Lemon joined CNN in September 2006.
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Lemon has reported many major headlines of the country including the Charleston church shooting (2015), death of Freddie Gray while in police custody, the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO (2014), the George Zimmerman trial (2013), the Boston marathon bombing (2013), the Philadelphia building collapse (2013), the Colorado Theater Shooting (2012), the death of Whitney Houston, the Inaugural of the 44th President in Washington, D.C., the death of Michael Jackson (2009).
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