6/11/20 - Back to Business Grants | Grieving During COVID | Racial Injustice in Context: Part Two | Book Club: Behind the Rifle - a podcast by MPB Think Radio

The Governor announces the launch of the Back to Business Grant program website.

And, a look how the pandemic has changed the way we grieve.

Then, part two of our conversation on the history of racial injustice.

Plus, in today’s book club – Civil war soldiers included some women disguised as male soldiers as we learn in Shelby Harriel’s “Behind the rifle.”

Segment 1:

Small businesses in Mississippi that suffered losses from the Coronavirus can begin applying

today for a new grant. The Back to Business Mississippi Grant Program will be open to small businesses with 50 employees or less using funds from the CARES Act. Businesses can apply for up to 25 thousand dollars for expenses related to COVID-19. Governor Tate Reeves announced the Back to Business website during his daily press briefing yesterday, noting that the pandemic has been an economic emergency for the state.

The COVID-19 death total is nearing 900 as the state enters its fourth month of the active cases and deaths. All throughout Mississippi, those who have lost loved ones, whether by COVID or otherwise, are having to adapt the way they grieve. Steve Holland, owner of Holland Funeral Directors in Tupelo, tells our Ashley Norwood things have changed since the arrival of the coronavirus. In his almost 50 years in the funeral business, the former state representative says he never imagined a time like this.

Segment 2:

On June 1st, President Donald Trump addressed the nation from the Rose Garden before proceeding through Lafayette Park to St. John's Episcopal Church. In the moments prior, protesters were forced to retreat the ground surrounding the park they had occupied while demonstrating most of the day. In the days that followed, two distinct narratives emerged about the events of that evening - the one seen through images and videos on newcasts and through social media platforms; and the one promoted by the White House. We return to our conversation with Jackson State University professor of History Dr. Robby Luckett to look closer at how this practice of manipulating the narrative traces back to the Civil Rights Era.

Segment 3:

More than two and a half million men fought in the civil war … And so did some women disguised as male soldiers. Why were they there and how did they pull it off? Shelby Harriel is the author of Behind the Rifle: Women Soldiers in Civil War Mississippi. My first question to her? How many women soldiers were there?

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