Jonathan Capehart
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373 appearances
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2 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard 9 Apr
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Mick Unplugged · Jonathan Capehart: Lessons in Truth, Connection, and Self-Belief · 14 Aug 2025
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Tamron Hall,
April Ryan and Joy Reid.
And they all said, wow, you have a story to tell.
Keep going.
April Ryan in particular was relentless.
It's like, are you still writing?
You have to tell your story.
People need to know your story.
And so I kept going.
And there were three authors along the way who really were my sort of guardian angels in all of this.
In 1999, 2000, I read Catherine Graham's memoir, Personal History.
Catherine Graham was the owner, publisher of the Washington Post, the most powerful woman in journalism, one of the most powerful people in the country.
And yet she wrote this memoir that was so revealing, so personal, so raw and honest and open.
I thought, wow.
whoa this powerful woman put all her stuff out there for us to read yeah and for us to take in and i thought i like this this is the kind of memoir i want to read fast forward 20 years i read charles blow's memoir fire shut up in my bones again raw open honest introspective and and it
showed me where the passion came from in Charles's columns for the New York Times.
So now you have these two diametrically opposed people, one gay, one straight, one black, one white, one male, one female, one in the later end of her career in life, the other one sort of smack in the middle.
And I thought, if ever I write a book, that's my guide.
And then when I started writing, my friend Richie Jackson, who had just finished writing his book, Gay Like Me, a letter from a father to his son, he said to me, Jonathan, remember, put yourself on every page.
You have to put yourself on every page for the reader.
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