North Carolina Central University will welcome Don Lemon, CNN anchor and author, on Monday, Sept. 17, at the B.N. Duke Auditorium. Lemon is the first speaker in the university’s Lyceum series for the 2012-13 academic year. Doors will open at 6 p.m. and the program will start at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Lemon joined CNN in September 2006. He anchors the weekend news program “CNN Newsroom” and also serves as a national CNN correspondent. He previously worked as a co-anchor for NBC5 News in Chicago and as a correspondent for NBC News in New York, “The Today Show” and “NBC Nightly News.”
The NCCU Lyceum series promotes and enhances the intellectual, cultural and aesthetic aspects of student growth and development through a series of outstanding lectures, concerts, dramas and exhibitions. The fall 2012 series will also include a concert with gospel great Marvin Sapp on Oct. 29 and a performance by the Philadelphia-based modern dance company PHILADANCO on Nov. 29.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit http://www.nccu.edu/academics/universitycollege or call the University College at 919-530-6932.
