Lemon, who came out publicly in his 2011 memoir, Transparent, was being honored at the inaugural 2016 Native Son Awards, a ceremony celebrating the visibility and achievements of African-American ...

CNN's Don Lemon Says a Breakup Helped Him Come Out to His Mom 15 Years Before Going Public "She asked me what kind of relationship we had, and I told her — that's when I started crying," the ...

As part of the new CNN series Roots, Don Lemon traced his ancestry in a pretty emotional segment where he and his mother traveled to Louisiana and the slave coast.

Read Don Lemon's column, "It only takes one drop," and Yaba Blay's column, ... My grandmother's father also was white. Her mother died during childbirth, and in 1919 Louisiana, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. CNN weekend anchor Don Lemon is gay, the journalist announced in his ...

Don Lemon returned as the host of a show for the first time since he was axed from CNN — but it wasn’t a newscast.. On Friday, Lemon hosted the 7th annual Native Son Awards at the IAC building ...

Don Lemon hit the red carpet, ... noting the tragic death of his sister in 2018 and losing his father young from diabetes. “Listen, I didn’t lose my job. I lost my sister.

That I was inspired by Don Lemon to tell her something that I had been holding on to for years. I shared that I was proudly gay and was silent for so long because I feared she would reject me.