Jesse Holland is an award-winning journalist, speaker, author, educator, and television personality. He is best known for being one of the first African American journalists to cover the Supreme Court full-time. Holland was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and he earned his bachelor’s in liberal arts with an emphasis in journalism and English from the University of Mississippi. He went on to earn his master of fine arts in creative nonfiction at Goucher College. While studying at the University of Mississippi, Holland became the second African American editor of the college newspaper, The Daily Mississippian. While working with The Daily Mississippian, Holland co-wrote the comic strip, Hippie and the Black Guy. Holland went on to be a reporter for The Oxford Eagle, as an Associated Press reporter, and had interned at The New York Times, Meredith Corporation, and the Birmingham Post-Herald. While working for AP, he covered the trail of Susan Smith, and he went on to be a statehouse reporter before covering issues such as state government and education. He has also been a race and ethnicity reporter for AP, a White House reporter, a Congressional reporter, a Supreme Court reporter, and a National Labor Writer. Since leaving AP, Holland has been a distinguished visiting scholar in resident at the John W. Kluge Center, and has also taught journalism at the University of Arkansas. Most recently, he has taught writing at Goucher College and journalism ethics. As an author, Holland has published the books “Black Men Built the Capitol,” “The Invisibles,” and more..

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