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Caribbean Heritage Month Wines Up to Wind Down

              📸IG: @orlandospringbreakfast   by Fey  🎥:   @feyugokweesq 🇬🇧🇬🇾🇳🇬🇺🇸 🌎:  https://linktr.ee/feyugokwe.esq Yes, *is* true—Caribbean Heritage Month has only one-and-a-small-piece weeks of wine💃🏽 remaining, so get out there and enjoy the truly 🔥 ongoing festivities if you’re a fellow Caribe/lover of the same. *All we* family under one palm tree🌴  —no matter what your flag(s) of heritage! Here’s my 6/2 🎥Instagram post about this truly historic🎉moon: 🥳Yes, man!! June, by official government proclamation, is 🥁Caribbean Heritage Month here in the 🇺🇸States (📸IG: @orlandospringbreakfast Follow them on IG!)! It’s time to commemorate & celebrate the dazzling contributions that people of our vast Caribbean diaspora have made, to this wondrous, welcoming nation. During the past few years, we’ve accelerated, at warp drive, our representation at all levels of society—particularly in prominent government & corporate positions. And, there’s never a shortage of u

🎙WOPH Podcast News 🎙 LaShonda Cooks: An Urban Artist, Her HairStory & An Iconic Museum of Art

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

#TheQuarantineChronicles: Trending Urban Contemporary Artist, LaShonda Cooks

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