On Friday nights, you see Jonathan Capehart alongside David Brooks discussing the big political

stories of the week, but it was a long journey that led him to the news hour and his work

at the Washington Post and MSNBC. Jonathan shares his life story and his new memoir, Yet Here

I Amn, Lessons from a Black Man's search for home. Omna spoke with Jonathan

Jonathan Caphart. I want to say welcome to the news hour, but welcome back and

it's good to see you on this set. Thank you very much, Omna. This is very lovely what you have here.

It's very lovely. It's a different view altogether. Yes. People who know your work will get a chance

to know a lot more about your life and what made

you you today.

You write about growing up in New Jersey, raised by your mom.

You also say that you spent summers with your family in North Carolina, which you say

was key to developing who you are today.

You write in the book, My Views on Race, My Sense of Place in the American Story,

took root there. How so?

So in New Jersey, during the school year, I went to Catholic school. In the summers, until I was

12, I went down south to my maternal grandparents' house where my grandmother was a Jehovah's

witness. And so I went out witnessing with my grandmother

on those country back roads. And it was there. The seminal thing that happened that stuck with me

from then until adulthood was going to these houses of almost always African Americans, older African Americans,

and being in their houses and seeing what I started calling the Holy Black Trinity. There

are always three portraits, sometimes four, in black homes. And there are always portraits

of Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Jesus Christ.

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