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by Fey  Twitter: @pinkpurseintl So many things happen in a blink—so quick that our minds seem not to process them, like the first tiny drops misting our Afro puffs or pig/ponytails, as we toddled after school with our mothers in the rain. Not so was 2020, which dragged its feet sullenly on, from the time we found out about coronavirus-19, until and through some argue, each gloomily present pandemic day. But there were folks, in what became an epidemic storm, who lifted our spirits in quarantine with their fun and funky content creation. And they are, as my late Mum would so warmly and jubilantly say (lilting  🇬🇾 Guyanese accent here), “to be commend-ed!” One such is LaShonda Cooks ( www.shondasart.com , IG:  @shondasart ), whom I interviewed for the WOPH pod, after she and an extensive network of fellow artists took the global social media #DontRushChallenge (🎥Watch:  https://www.instagram.com/tv/B-uLipsg00t/?utm_medium=copy_link  )  to the canvas-side of the sandbox. (#ICYMI,  🎧 L

by Fey  ( https://amzn.to/319POd5 ) Every artist has a secret. During our recent 2020 #Covid19Quarantine, Akaimi Davis, https://akaimidavis.com   and her fellow contemporary artists in various cities around the nation—and the globe—posted a catching #dontrush challenge video, from the belly of self-isolation in their homes. The upbeat vid highlighted the talents of independent artists and encouraged the support of their works during the tandem, globally tough economic season. But not everyone’s lives on that video read the same.  WOPH learns what self-isolation in a pandemic, under the threat of serious pre-existing conditions, was like for that vid’s San Antonio-based artist.  Listen: https://anchor.fm/woph/episodes/Trending-Urban-Artist--Akaimi-Davis-eelvd5 The Women of Power Hours continues The Conversation about the epic cultural and sociocultural experiences of Women in the world. Host: Fey Ugokwe, Esq.; Guest: Akaimi Davis.

by Fey (Twitter: @pinkpurseintl ) In the very recent time of our year 2020 #Covid19Quarantine, LaShonda Cooks, www.shondasart.com and her fellow contemporary artists in various cities around the nation—and the globe—posted an epic #dontrush challenge video, from the depths of self-isolation in their homes. The upbeat vid highlighted the talents of independent artists and encouraged the support of their works during the tandem, globally tough economic season. WOPH learned (📸 Post: https://www.instagram.com/tv/B-uLipsg00t/?utm_medium=copy_link ) what weeks shut away in quarantine with her kin and canvasses did to one of the video’s Dallas-based artists.  🎧Listen Here: https://anchor.fm/woph/episodes/Trending-Urban-Artist--LaShonda-Cooks-eeiefb The Women of Power Hours continues The Conversation about the epic sociocultural experiences of Women in the world.  Host: Fey Ugokwe, Esq. Guest: LaShonda Cooks