Kyle Westaway

Just wrote my first article on Forbes about the challenges entrepreneurs are facing with the EIDL application process. Have you applied? Love to hear your thoughts / comments. https://www.forbes.com//why-entrepreneurs-think-the-eidl/

If you’re interested in building a good company and a meaningful life, you should subscribe to the Real Good Business podcast by @alliebridge and @caitlincrosby. The most recent episode asks the question: What does COVID-19 make possible? @desi_buchanan talks about her company’s pivot to mask making. They were kind enough to invite me on for a short cameo about #PPP and more importantly, with the magic of editing, they even make me sound smart! Check it out.

Walking across the bridge in Selma, the starting point of the historic Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery. The marches were organized by nonviolent activists to demonstrate the desire of African-American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, in defiance of segregationist repression, and were part of a broader voting rights movement underway in Selma and throughout the American South. By highlighting racial injustice, they contributed to passage that year of the Voting Rights Act, a landmark federal achievement of the Civil Rights Movement. @malikster

Bullet hole in the window of the Jackson MS office of the NAACP from the 1960’s when Medgar Evars was the Field Secretary there. He was a humble and resolute leader. He worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi, end the segregation of public facilities, and expand opportunities for African Americans, which included the enforcement of voting rights. He was assassinated at his home a few blocks away in 1963 by Byron de la Beckwith, a white supremacist and Klansman, while JFK was giving his speech on civil rights.

Hollis Watkins is an activist in Mississippi who was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement activities in the state during the 1960s. He wrote and still to this day sings many of the songs of the movement. He became a member and organizer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1961, was a county organizer for 1964's "Freedom Summer", and assisted the efforts of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to unseat the regular Mississippi delegation from their chairs at the 1964 Democratic Party national convention in Atlantic City. He founded Southern Echo, a group that gives support to other grass-roots organizations in Mississippi. He also is a founder of the Mississippi Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement. @ Jackson, Mississippi