Jonathan Capehart will tell the story of his life and career in a new memoir.
Grand Central will publish the MSNBC host’s Yet Here I Am: Lessons From a Black Man’s Search for Home next year. The press says that in the book, Capehart “recounts powerful stories from his life about embracing identity, picking battles, seizing opportunity and finding his voice to speak up for others—and himself.”
Capehart, a New Jersey native, began his journalism career with stints at the Today show, the New York Daily News, and Bloomberg News. He is currently a staffer for the Washington Post and the host of MSNBC’s The Saturday/Sunday Show With Jonathan Capehart.
His memoir, Grand Central says, will cover his childhood, his education at Carleton College, “where he [learned] to embrace his identity as a gay, Black man surrounded by a like-minded community,” and his career as a journalist.
“Honest and endearing, Yet Here I Am is an inspirational memoir of identity, opportunity, and of finding one’s voice and purpose along the way,” Grand Central says.
Capehart announced his memoir on his show, saying, “Y’all are going to learn the backstory of how I got here, as well as some hilarious things about me that I might never live down.”
Yet Here I Am is slated for publication on May 20, 2025.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
