Don Lemon | This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism
Recorded Mar 22, 2021
Direct Download:
20210322-donlemo.mp3
In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition
America’s sole Black primetime news anchor, Don Lemon has hosted CNN Tonight since 2014. Before joining the respected cable network in 2006, he worked for NBC News and MSNBC, and earlier in his career as a reporter and anchor in Birmingham, Philadelphia, and Chicago, among other places. The recipient of an Edward R. Murrow Award and three regional Emmy Awards, Lemon was named one of EBONY magazine’s 150 most influential African Americans of 2009 and one of Advocate’s 50 Most Influential LGBTQ People in Media in 2014. This Is the Fire draws on personal experience, informed reporting, and historical research to examine the struggle to end racism in our lifetime.
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