Don Lemon

I don't consider myself a celebrity. I'm just a journalist.

When you are the first of anything, there is a bigger responsibility put on you.

My mom tells me every single day that she's proud of me.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.