Floyd Boykin Jr., Publisher and Poet

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).

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About Don Capener

Dr. Capener joined the Monmouth College business faculty in 2001. He is best known as the co-founder of Above The Rim Basketball that sold to Reebok in 1993. Capener recently accepted the Deanship at Jacksonville University’s Davis School of Business in Florida. As an Emmy award winning advertising professional in the Southern CA region, Don was the CMO and marketing architect for Above The Rim and ClickRewards.com. He directed national efforts for Visa’s promotional campaigns such as Visa Rewards at Frankel & Company in Chicago and San Francisco. He rose to Managing Director of Frankel’s San Francisco office. He is now a Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and consults for start-up and mid-sized companies

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