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The 5 feet 6 inch tall Lemon disclosed in his autobiography вЂTransparentвЂ™ that he was gay. His candid, outspoken take on relative issues and anchoring, made him a popular anchor and a news journalist on TV. He also made strong points regarding the betterment of the Afro-American community.

Don lemon full#

This channel gave him a podium to raise his voice and as he is an outspoken person, Lemon took full advantage of this platform and criticized the state of cable news and questioned the network publicly. Lemons carrier took a turn when he joined CNN in the year 2006. In the year 2003, Lemon was a journalist as well as a local news anchor at NBC and O&O station WMAQ-TV. He also worked as a reporter for the NBC News regarding New York City operations. Lemon worked as a correspondent for today and NBC Nightly News and also as an anchor on MSNBC and Weekend Today. He then worked for WBRC Birmingham in Alabama. He also worked as an investigative journalist and a reporter for KTVI St.Louis. Lemon started his career as a weekend anchor for WBRC in Birmingham, Alabama and in WCAU in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He even discussed the curse of racism prevailing in the black community, homophobia, and discrimination and reflected upon the trauma of the abuse that he had suffered as a child. He has written a autobiography вЂњTransparentвЂќ, where Lemon clearly talked about his sexuality and it was significantly clear that he was gay. This trauma of sexual abuse was repeatedly reflected in his words and write ups. The abuse he had suffered as a child left a deep emotional scar in his mind and haunted him till his late years. In an interview in 2010, Lemon confessed on air that he had been a victim of physical abuse as a child at the age of seven, and he did not share this trauma with his mother until he was thirty years of age. Later he studied in the Louisiana State University.

In this college he worked as a news assistant at WNYW in New York City. He did his higher studies in broadcast journalism and graduated from Brooklyn College, in Brooklyn, New York.

From his childhood years, Lemon was obsessed with the media and journalism.ДЄs a child Lemon attended a public high school in the city of Baker, namely the Baker High school. It is known that his parents never married. Lemon is an Afro- American by birth and his full name is Donald Davis Lemon. Currently, he is living in Atlanta, Georgia. Lemon was born on March 1, 1966, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.