Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Mans Search for Home [Hardcover]

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 atThe Today Showaltered 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 Amis an inspirational memoir of identity, opportunity, and finding one's voice and purpose along the way.  Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jonathan Capehart is anchor ofThe Saturday ShowandThe Sunday Showon MSNBC. In the spring, he will become a co-host of the morning edition ofThe Weekendon MSNBC.Capehart is Associate Editor at the Washington Post, where he is also an opinion writer. He is also an analyst onThe PBS News Hour. Capehart was deputy editorial page editor of theNew York Daily News(20l3t