Bonus: Don Lemon on his new book and finding grace among the racial tumult
Next Question with Katie Couric
Katie Couric Media
4.4 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Don Lemon is busy! The CNN Tonight anchor has spent the year guiding and framing the public’s understanding of a deadly pandemic, George Floyd’s death, the presidential election, an insurrection. Somehow, amid all of that, he wrote a book, “This is The Fire: What I Say To My Friends About Racism.” On Next Question with Katie Couric, Katie and Don talk about his personal exploration through America’s racist past and becoming the nation’s moral compass as it reckoned with its racist’s present.
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| 1:45.1 | Hi everyone, I'm Katie Curric and this is next question. Today I'm really excited to be |
| 1:50.6 | sitting down with my friend Don Lemon to talk about his new book. It's called This Is the Fire. |
| 1:56.4 | I'm really glad he wrote it. I learned a lot. It's really a blend of his own life experiences |
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