(ThySistas.com) Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote something this past weekend that a lot of us are still chewing on. The woman behind the 1619 Project used a fresh New York Times Magazine essay to admit her own daughter thinks the family got education wrong. Not a stranger’s kid. The girl is sixteen ...
(ThySistas.com) The paper she earned opened law, public service, and a life she rewrote more than once. Ours can do the same. Ask most of us what a college degree is for, and the answer arrives on reflex. It secures a good position. Land the role, keep the role, retire ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a particular tired that Black women know without anybody having to spell it out. Not from working long hours. This is the tired of shrinking yourself down, of bending into somebody you were never meant to be, until you wake up one day and hardly know the ...
(ThySistas.com) Sheryl Lee Ralph has spent a lifetime being looked at. This week she decided to talk back about the cost of it. News broke on September 14. A new memoir, “You Better Love What You See,” lands April 6, 2027. That title did not come from nowhere. Ralph pulled ...
(ThySistas.com) Somewhere between the punchlines and that golden statue, we stopped keeping count of how many firsts belonged to Caryn Elaine Johnson. The world simply knows her as Whoopi. A single name that carries weight, the kind earned across four decades of refusing to get small. Lately folks love to ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a certain freedom that arrives with age, and a good portion of it comes from finally understanding that you do not owe the world a narration of your days. Kerry Washington figured this out a long time ago, and without lecturing anybody, she has been showing the ...
(ThySistas.com) Every few months the machine cranks up again. A fresh headline, a think piece, a panel of talking heads shaking their heads about the former actress from California who married into a palace and then had the nerve to walk away from life as a working royal. Meghan has ...
(ThySistas.com) Public reaction to a celebrated woman’s private choices tends to arrive in two waves. Applause comes first. Then the second guessing, often dressed up as concern. Ciara, now 40 and expecting again, has become the latest study in that pattern. You would think a pregnancy inside a solid marriage ...
(ThySistas.com) Somewhere between the record books and the fake quotes strangers keep putting in her mouth, Angel Reese became a mirror. Half of what people say about her is really about them. The Baltimore area native just keeps hooping. Here is what I keep noticing. This country has never known ...
(ThySistas.com) Somewhere along the way we got sold a lie. It goes like this. A woman only matters while she is running herself ragged, always on, always in view. Let her slow down for a season and folks will swear she quit. Given up. Lost the fire. Eve has spent ...