Oct 23
Local talk with Jonathan Capehart '89
Content Bookstore is delighted to welcome
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jonathan Capehart '89
back to Northfield
Date: Thursday, October 23, 2025
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location:
Grand Event Center
316 Washington Street
Northfield, MN 55057
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.
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 '89 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. From 2007-2025, Capehart was the Associate Editor and opinion writer at the Washington Post. 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.
Cost: The event is free and registration is not required.
Sponsored by Content Bookstore.