which teaches tailoring to young Black women. She remembers one evening, in March 2020, when one of her students walked in, and made a strange request."And I kinda laughed. Like ... what a silly thing." It was so unusual, Hapa posted a picture of the self-made mask, on Instagram."And maybe two, three days later, we found out we were going to have to close down our space.
"All the businesses that are part of TAMA received grants, which was a number one press for us," she says."To keep their business afloat." But it was a lot more than that. The Tompkins Avenue owners checked in on each other every day, in a WhatsApp group. They'd compare notes about PPP loans, the cost of new hygiene requirements.
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