Jonathan Capehart is a columnist for the Washington Post and also hosts a Sunday show on MSNBC. Capehart has a new book out titled “Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man’s Search for Home” which includes an explanation of his decision to quit the Post’s editorial board in 2023. According to Capehart, it was all the fault of his fellow board member Karen Tumulty.
In his book, Capehart, who remains a columnist at the paper, writes that he clashed with Tumulty over an editorial which took issue with then-President Joe Biden’s criticism of a 2021 Georgia voting law.
Biden described the law as “Jim Crow 2.0” — a characterization that the Washington Post editorial board deemed to be “hyperbolic.”…
“Tumulty took an incident where I felt she ignored and compounded the insult by robbing me of my humanity,” he wrote in the book, which was…
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