An Evening with Steve Holland: Film and Conversation
Document Type
Video
Publication Date
1-30-2025
Abstract
This SouthTalk will bring together two of the Center’s favorite things: film and discussion. We invite former SouthDocs producer and current assistant professor of broadcast and digital journalism at Mississippi State University, Rex Jones, to screen his documentary Jesus Was a Democrat. The film follows funeral-home owner and Mississippi legislator Steve Holland as he approaches the end of his thirty-six-year tenure in office. After the film, Center director Katie McKee will engage in a conversation with Holland, a Southern Studies alum. They will discuss how Holland navigated his intersecting environments—politics, his work at the funeral home, and his decision later in life to pursue a Southern Studies degree.
Relational Format
video recording
Recommended Citation
Holland, Steve; Jones, Rex; and McKee, Kathryn, "An Evening with Steve Holland: Film and Conversation" (2025). SouthTalks. 67.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/southtalks/67
