Yet here I am : lessons from a Black man's search for home
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, 2025.
Physical Description
viii, 259 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
"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, 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 of finding one's voice and purpose along the way." --
Contents
- Sonny boy's boy
- My education in Jim Crow
- Jehovah's summer intern
- Growing up Brady
- Fresh Prince in reverse
- A destination with no road map
- Everything around me came alive
- Hide your porn well!
- Native New Yorker
- Learning how to write.. and winning a Pulitzer
- When someone asks what you want, tell them
- 'F****** S***!'
- Why I left the editorial board
- Nick
- Don't act like you've never been anywhere
- 'What times we're going to have'
- Acknowledgments.