“I know I'm going back some decades, but I'll never forget the discomfort of being one of the few Black kids in a predominantly White school, especially during history class when slavery, the Civil War, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. or the civil rights movement would come up.”

American journalist and liberal television commentator

Jonathan T. Capehart is an American journalist and liberal television commentator. He has been a visible voice in U.S. political media, with work across television and newspapers, and 100 quotes on this site. Capehart began hosting MSNBC programs in 2020 and joined the MS NOW news talk show The Weekend in 2025. Before that, he was an opinion writer for The Washington Post, and since 2021 he has contributed weekly political commentary to the PBS News Hour.