01/13/2026
Join fellow Carls for Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man’s Search for Home a conversation with Jonathan Capehart '89 and Lori Matsukawa on Tuesday, January 20. The event is in Seattle but a live-stream option is available.
For more information, visit:
https://www.carleton.edu/alumni/regional-carls/calendar/?eId=us7Y
MSNBC anchor Jonathan Capehart '89 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. Capehart takes us along that journey, from his years at Carleton, 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.