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This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism Audiobook
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In this "vital book for these times" (Kirkus Reviews), Don Lemon brings his vast audience and experience as a reporter and a Black man to today's most urgent question: How can we end racism in America in our lifetimes?
The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is more popular than ever. As America’s only Black prime-time anchor, Lemon and his daily monologues on racism and antiracism, on the failures of the Trump administration and of so many of our leaders, and on America’s systemic flaws speak for his millions of fans. Now, in an urgent, deeply personal, riveting plea, he shows us all how deep our problems lie, and what we can do to begin to fix them.Beginning with a letter to one of his Black nephews, he proceeds with reporting and reflections on his slave ancestors, his upbringing in the shadows of segregation, and his adult confrontations with politicians, activists, and scholars. In doing so, Lemon offers a searing and poetic ultimatum to America. He visits the slave port where a direct ancestor was shackled and shipped to America. He recalls a slave uprising in Louisiana, just a few miles from his birthplace. And he takes us to the heart of the 2020 protests in New York City. As he writes to his young nephew: We must resist racism every single day. We must resist it with love.
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“Lemon discusses anecdotes from his own life, including a trip to Ghana with his mother to discover their ancestry, and the tragic death of his sister Leisa. Throughout, he emphasizes empathy and the need for readers to value fellow humans despite their differences.”
— Publishers Weekly
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“The well-known, forthright news anchor astutely diagnoses our nation’s greatest malady…Lemon strikes a nice balance between the personal and the political.”
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“Lemon brings a searing power and persuasiveness to his arguments and views.”
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“He emphasizes…that we are all capable of doing the work necessary to combat white supremacy.”
— Library Journal
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New York Times bestseller
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A #1 Amazon bestseller
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A New York Times Book Review pick of Best Books Now in Paperback
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Gary Sartor, 1/22/2022
About Don Lemon
Don Lemon hosts CNN Tonight with Don Lemon and serves as a correspondent across CNN’s US programming. Before joining the network in 2006, he was a correspondent for The Today Show and NBC Nightly News and an anchor on Weekend Today and MSNBC. He also volunteers extensively and teaches journalism at Brooklyn College.