Tell Your Story with Jonathan Capehart

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson

Higher Ground

Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement

4.4 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart joins the show to discuss his memoir, Yet Here I Am. Michelle and Craig turn the tables and learn more about how Jonathan ended up in journalism— from his childhood shuttling between New Jersey and North Carolina, to his early career in the New York, and his experience as a gay Black man in media.

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0:00.0	the formal name was Main Street.
0:01.9	The colloquial name was White Street.
0:04.6	And so my mother would make that right.
0:07.2	And I never understood why.
0:08.7	I was like, Mom, you just go down there and go.
0:10.6	But, you know, driving down south in your brown 450 SL Mercedes.
0:17.1	Which I was like, stop there.
0:19.0	Stop there, Mom, stop there. Stop there,
0:21.1	Mom, K-part.
0:24.0	With your bins.
0:25.3	I know, with her bins.
0:26.1	She was like,
0:26.7	and we're going down
0:27.4	White Street in our bins.
0:28.8	In our bins.
0:29.6	And as I write in the book,
0:30.6	it was like her,
0:32.0	it was a slow motion protest
0:34.0	at 15 miles an hour.
0:35.7	Right.
0:41.3	Yeah. protest at 15 miles an hour. This episode is brought to you by Theraflu.
0:47.0	How are you?
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