(ThySistas.com) Few artists can command a silence the way Jill Scott does. When a performer of that stature goes more than a decade without releasing a studio album, the absence becomes its own kind of statement. For the Sistas who came up letting Jilly from Philly narrate their heartbreaks and ...
(ThySistas.com) Something has been sitting with me lately, Sistas, a question about how we decide whose name gets remembered. We live in a culture obsessed with the scoreboard. Trophies, titles, the corner office, that shiny win column. Worth gets measured by what sits on the plaque, and if your name ...
(ThySistas.com) Olandria Carthen walked out of that Fiji villa back in the summer of 2025 with half the country watching, and the staring has not let up one bit. Pretty does that to people. Looks get you in the room, no question. Problem is, they drag along a certain kind ...
(ThySistas.com) Beauty has always arrived with a strict set of instructions attached, and Claressa Shields has spent a whole career ignoring every one of them. The GWOAT, as the Flint native proudly calls herself, stands at 19 and 0 as a professional heading into this November. Down in Atlanta back ...
(ThySistas.com) Most Black women I know are generous with everything except their own time. The hours get handed out to children, work, and whoever calls in crisis, until nothing is left for themselves. What’s left is a bone-deep tiredness that shows up around nine at night. You spent the whole ...
(ThySistas.com) The morning after tasted different, and any Sista who stayed up past midnight on November 3 knows exactly what I mean. Keisha Lance Bottoms stepped onto a stage in Atlanta, voice catching, and said she stood on shoulders made of steel. She was speaking of her great-great-grandmother, Betsy Peak, ...
(ThySistas.com) Fifty-five looks good on Jada Pinkett Smith. Not the airbrushed good that glossy covers sell you, but the settled kind that only shows up once a woman quits auditioning for everybody else’s comfort. That birthday arrived back in September, and anybody who has watched her these past few years ...
(ThySistas.com) Nobody throws a parade for the sister who simply kept showing up. We save our confetti for the twenty-two-year-old who blew up overnight, the fresh face on each cover, the prodigy who made success look effortless. Meanwhile somebody’s auntie has been grinding since before that baby could crawl, and ...
(ThySistas.com) Meagan Good has lived most of a long career in front of a camera, yet the defining stretch of this chapter happened away from it. Long before the actress found love again, there was a marriage to grieve and a self to rebuild. Divorce rearranges a woman from the ...
(ThySistas.com) R&B singer Ashanti turned 46 this month, and Nelly marked the occasion with a birthday tribute on social media. But there is more to celebrate than another year of life. Something settled into that woman’s face. Contentment, maybe. You only get that look after you stop fighting so hard ...