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*CNN’s Don Lemon made a passionate appeal for tougher gun control while reporting from Newtown, Connecticut on Monday morning. The deaths of 20 elementary school children and six adults in Friday’s mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School have sparked a national debate about gun control. Numerous lawmakers and media personalities, including Lemon’s CNN colleague [...]
*CNN anchor Don Lemon is on a mission to blast Jonah Hill across multiple media platforms after he claims the actor snubbed him during a recent run-in at a hotel, reports TMZ. For the past 24 hours, a very bitter Lemon has been griping on Twitter and even on his colleague Soledad O’Brien’s show “Starting [...]
*Director Spike Lee spoke to CNN’s Don Lemon about stereotypes in film, and the conversation inevitably swung around to Tyler Perry. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The two directors traded public barbs after Lee, in 2009 said, among other things, that Perry’s films “harken back to ‘Amos n’ Andy’. Perry responded by famously saying Spike [...]
*Comedian Tommy Chong, one-half of the Cheech and Chong, announced on CNN that he is suffering from prostate cancer. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Chong, also the father of actress Rae Dawn Chong, told CNN’s Don Lemon that he was diagnosed about a month ago, but he’s had the cancer — a “slow Stage 1″ [...]
*Don Lemon has been stirring up controversy on CNN since the Trayvon Martin case bubbled over to the public sphere. On Sunday night, the n-word controversy came up again with Noel Sheppard, editor of conservative watchdog Newsbusters. He believes now is the wrong time to have that discussion considering all that is going on with [...]
*Whoopi Goldberg is an outspoken woman and has no shame in what she believes. “The View” co-host said she totally supports journalists saying the full n-word. But she isn’t alone. CNN’s Don Lemon actually initiated the conversation. RELATED: CNN Reporter Says ‘F*cking Nigger’ While Reading Report and Quoting (Tulsa Shooting) Suspect on the Air. (Video) [...]
*CNN’s weekend anchor, Don Lemon had to tell it like it is during an interview with Goldie Taylor about the controversy Trayvon Martin’s murder has brought out. During the conversation, he had a moment and said, “please don’t send me any more tweets that by having this conversation, I’m a racist.” It wasn’t until after [...]
*Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” put together a video of CNN’s Don Lemon expressing bewilderment at various on soft-news segments (stuff like how much it would cost to enroll in the fictional Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry or a guy who dresses as a devil to illustrate just how hot it is outside). Below: [...]
*CNN heart throb and weekend prime-time anchor Don Lemon made it official. Not that he’s a published author with the launch of his new book “Transparent,” a story about his personal and painful family secrets and professional struggles. It’s that he’s gay – a shock for some, old news for many. He said it was [...]
*CNN Anchor Don Lemon was met with overwhelming criticism after he came out of the closet a couple weeks ago as an openly gay black man. He made remarks concerning black women and he has been paying ever since. He made the remark that black women are saying the same thing about him as they say [...]
*New York – On April 4th, music producer and popular New York DJ personality Mister Cee was arrested for sexual lewd acts with a man. On April 17th, “straight” rapper Lil B sent the Hip Hop world into a frenzy when he announced plans to title his upcoming album, “I’m Gay.” Then on May 15th, [...]
*CNN anchorman, Don Lemon, after having announced that he is gay on Sunday, said that he believes living in the closet is “disingenuous and dishonest”. While Mr. Lemon was referring to his coming out about being gay, there are many people “in the closet” about a variety of things. There are closet eaters, closet liars, [...]
*Cleo Manago, founder of the Black Men’s Xchange (http://www.bmxnational.com) the nation’s oldest and largest community-based movement devoted to promoting healthy self-concept and behavior, cultural affirmation and critical consciousness among same gender loving (SGL), gay-identifying and bisexual African-descended males and allies, issued the following statement regarding CNN’s Don Lemon’s “coming out”: “I’m being inundated with questions [...]
*CNN anchor Don Lemon is now out of the closet. In a new book, “Transparent,” Lemon talks about his life and his sexuality, and he revealed that he is gay in an interview with the New York Times. In a tweet on Sunday night, Lemon, who has anchored in a variety of roles for CNN, [...]
*Yesterday, Thursday (March 3) was 20 years to the day that Rodney King became THE police brutality icon. Tonight, CNN will present an exclusive interview with King to retrace the historic events of that night in 1991. The special, “Race and Rage: The Beating of Rodney King,” will feature King, now 45, talking with CNN [...]
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