Jonathan Capehart's YET HERE I AM

Name: Jonathan Capehart's YET HERE I AM
Start: 2025-10-23T19:00:00-05:00
Location: The Grand Event Center of Northfield

Schedule

Thu, 23 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

The Grand Event Center of Northfield | Northfield, MN

Content welcomes Jonathan Capehart back to Northfield for a reading from his memoir, YET HERE I AM: LESSONS FROM A BLACK MAN'S SEARCH FOR HOME. Join us at the Grand Event Center on Thursday, October 23rd at 7 pm for an engaging reading and discussion.
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Pulitzer Prize winning writer, editor and TV host Jonathan Capehart recounts powerful stories from his life about embracing identity, picking battles, seizing opportunity and finding his voice.
MSNBC anchor Jonathan Capehart is one of the most recognizable faces in cable news. But long before that success, Capehart spent his boyhood growing up without his father, shuttling back and forth between New Jersey and rural Severn, North Carolina, and contemplating the complexities of race and identity as they shifted around him. It was never easy bridging two worlds; whether being told he was too smart or not smart enough, too Black or not Black enough, Capehart struggled to find his place. Then, an internship at The Today Show altered the course of his life, bringing him one step closer to his dream. From there, Capehart embarks on a journey of self-discovery.
YET HERE I AM takes us along that journey, from his years at Carleton College, where he learns to embrace his identity as a gay Black man surrounded by a likeminded community; to his decision to come out to his family, risking rejection; and finally to his move to New York City, where time and again he stumbles and picks himself up as he blazes a path to become the familiar face in news we know today.
Honest and endearing, YET HERE I AM is an inspirational memoir of identity, opportunity, and finding one's voice and purpose along the way.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jonathan Capehart is a co-host of the morning edition of The Weekend on MSNBC. From 2020 until 2025, he was anchor of The Saturday Show and The Sunday Show on MSNBC. Capehart is Associate Editor at the Washington Post, where he is also an opinion writer. He is also an analyst on The PBS News Hour. Capehart was deputy editorial page editor of the New York Daily News (2002-2004) and served on its editorial board (1993-2000). His editorial campaign in 1999 to save the Apollo Theater earned the board the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.