Lemon, Don Renaldo
1966-present · Contribution: 1996-2023
Broadcast journalist; anchor
Anchored CNN Tonight and other prime-time CNN programs for 17 years (2006-2023), and in 2011 became the most prominent African American television journalist to publicly come out as gay, a disclosure made in his memoir Transparent
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Quick facts
- Born
- 1966, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Active since
- 1996
- Category
- Press & Photography
- Best known for
- 17 years anchoring CNN prime time
Impact on the world
Lemon covered a decade of major national stories from a prime-time perch and, in coming out and disclosing his own history of childhood abuse on air, became a widely cited role model within Black LGBTQ communities.
Sources
- CNN
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