Audiences will immediately recognize Don Lemon as an award-winning veteran TV journalist. A trusted source of information on CNN, NBC, and MSNBC for thirty years, he now independently produces and hosts The Don Lemon Show on YouTube and podcasting platforms. A true product of the modern news age, Lemon's work defies genre, candidly exposing injustice and shining a light on the resilience of the human spirit. An inspiration to diverse audiences, he shares his hard-fought rise to prime time as one of the most prominent Black gay men in news today.

Relatable and charismatic, Lemon brings to The Don Lemon Show his signature style of outspoken truth-telling to topics spanning from social issues and race to pop-culture and current events. In each episode, Lemon blends his personal take on the stories shaping our lives with interviews from the moment’s biggest newsmakers to help audiences better understand the world around them.

A master of delivering powerful insights on screen and on the page, Lemon is also a New York Times bestselling author. His latest book, I Once Was Lost: My Search for God in America, is both a journalistic examination of the role religion plays in our lives amidst increasing secularism and a more personal exploration of Lemon’s own contentious relationship with God. This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism, a #1 New York Times bestseller, is a personal and urgent call to confront and end racism in America. It combines historical context, personal experiences, and reflections on current events to illustrate the depth of systemic racism and propose ways to combat it.

Don Lemon was the co-anchor of CNN This Morning along with Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins on weekday mornings and served as a correspondent across CNN’s U.S. programming. He served as prime-time anchor of Don Lemon Tonight for more than eight years.

Lemon was also a key figure during election seasons. He has served as moderator for CNN's political town halls and co-moderated first 2020 Democratic Presidential Debate. A respected voice on race issues in America, he co-hosted the Color of Covid special that addressed the pandemic's impact on communities of color and served as the network's leading voice guiding viewers through the death of George Floyd and the summer of nationwide protests and riots.

He has reported and anchored on-the-scene for CNN breaking many of the biggest news stories in recent history, including the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the school shooting in Uvalde, TX, the crisis in Ukraine, the Orlando shooting at Pulse Nightclub, the Charleston church shooting, the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody, the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, the George Zimmerman trial, the Boston marathon bombing, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the death of Whitney Houston, President Barack Obama’s inauguration, and the death of Michael Jackson.

Lemon began his career at WNYW in New York City as a news assistant while still in college. He then held a variety of positions at local news stations in Philadelphia, St. Louis, Birmingham, and Chicago before appearing on national news programs and networks including NBC News, The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, Weekend Today, and MSNBC.

Throughout his career, Lemon has won many awards for his journalism including the Edward R. Murrow Award for his coverage of the capture of the Washington, D.C. snipers and other awards for his Hurricane Katrina coverage. He also won three local Emmys for his reporting on real estate in Chicagoland and the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa. Ebony magazine named him one of their Power 150, an honor recognizing the most influential Black people in America. He has a B.A. in broadcast journalism from Brooklyn College and also attended Louisiana State University.