Westport native helps start Facebook #BuyBlack campaign

By DJ Simmons Published 6:00 am EST, Wednesday, November 25, 2020 Westport native Remi Ray helped spearhead a Facebook campaign to spotlight Black-owned businesses for the month of November. Westport native Remi Ray helped spearhead a Facebook campaign to spotlight Black-owned businesses for the month of November. Photo: DJ Simmons/Hearst Connecticut Media Photo: DJ Simmons/Hearst Connecticut Media Westport native Remi Ray helped spearhead a Facebook campaign to spotlight Black-owned businesses for the month of November. Westport native Remi Ray helped spearhead a Facebook campaign to spotlight Black-owned businesses for the month of November. Photo: DJ Simmons/Hearst Connecticut Media In the wake of George Floyd’s death, which sparked protests across the country this summer, a Westport native helped spearhead a campaign at Facebook to promote Black-owned businesses and to help the Black community. “During the racial reckoning that took place this summer a lot of us at the company were thinking of ways we could help the Black community,” said Remi Ray, small business marketing lead on the Global Customer Marketing Small Business Group at Facebook. Ray, a Staples graduate, said 41 percent of Black-owned small businesses have already closed this year due to the coronavirus — twice the rate of white-owned…
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