The Oklahoma Eagle Newswire
Hear from Associated Press reporter and author of “Who is the Black Panther?”, the novel companion to Marvel’s blockbuster movie “Black Panther,” Jesse Holland as he discusses black heroes and popular culture on Sunday, March 3 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Gilcrease Museum.
His talk will expand on the significance of “The Chisholm Kid: Lone Fighter for Justice for All” and debunk Hollywood myths about black heroes. A book signing will follow his lecture.
Jesse J. Holland is from Holly Springs, Mississippi, and graduated from the University of Mississippi with a Liberal Arts degree with an emphasis in journalism and English. He received his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College in 2012 and was awarded a doctorate of humane letters from LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis, Tennessee in 2018.
He is an award-winning journalist, television personality and author and is responsible for the first novel featuring comics’ most popular black superhero, The Black Panther
In “Black Panther: Who Is The Black Panther?” Holland retells the classic origin of T’Challa, the original Black Panther, and updates it for the new century, giving new fans and longtime die-hard aficionados a good platform and some inside information for the Oscar-nominated Black Panther movie from Marvel Studios.
Jesse is an accomplished novelist, having also been trusted by Lucasfilm to chronicle the history of their newest black hero in “Star Wars” – Finn – in the young adult novel “Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Finn’s Story.”
In addition to fiction, Jesse is also a nonfiction author, with his book “The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves In The White House” being named the 2017 silver medal award winner in U.S. History in the Independent Publisher Book Awards and one of the top history books of 2016 by Smithsonian.com.
Jesse is a Race & Ethnicity writer for The Associated Press, and is also a weekend host for C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” a frequent guest on NPR’s “Here & Now” and is often called upon as an expert commentator on race relations, diversity, American politics and the history of slavery in Washington, D.C.
Jesse now shares his love of journalism, writing and history through public speaking and teaching. He currently teaches creative nonfiction in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction program at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, and speaks at colleges and universities around the world about journalism and writing.
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