Don Lemon is an American television journalist most well known for being a host on CNN. Lemon anchored weekend news programs on local television stations in Alabama and Pennsylvania during his early days as a journalist.
Does Don Lemon have brothers and sisters?
Don has two sisters named Leisa and Yma, the latter is his last surviving sibling. On January 31, 2018, Leisa Lemon died after drowning in a fishing accident in Denham Springs, Louisiana.
Don’s late father Wilmon Richardson was an attorney who is remembered for being part of a lawsuit that successfully challenged the segregation of public transportation in the family’s hometown of Baton Rouge.
When the host was a child, Wilmon died due to health complications brought on by diabetes.
Lemon was born under the surname of his mother’s then-husband and discovered that Wilmon was his father when he was five. Most of Don’s upbringing was centered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.