Floyd Boykin spoke yesterday to a large audience at Midwest Entrepreneurs. Mr. Boykin was a Communications major at Monmouth College, from St. Louis, graduating in 1993 . At Monmouth he was active in the Black Students Organization (BAAC), and music director for R&B/Hip-Hop at WMCR. His major venture these days is publishing “SpokenVisions” magazine (re-launched recently electronically). He is both a publisher  and an award winning poet. He plans to open a poet’s cafe in St. Louis in the next few years. Floyd continues to produce spoken word raps and poetry exposing the world of drugs, cruelty against women, and “inner beauty”. His last CD won a creative award  and his own music recordings have been used in promotional videos for the health and beauty segment. He was selected for inclusion as one of the 2011 Honorees in the 7th Edition of Who’s Who in Black St. Louis. Mr Boykin is working on his second film project that has to do with violence against women (a long time concern of his in terms of negative attitudes in hip-hop music). He also is an activist and supporter of research for the cure of Lupus (the disease that killed his mother).