(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 ...
(ThySistas.com) For more than two decades, Keyshia Cole has conducted her private life in full public view, every high and every heartbreak unfolding on a stage she never quite chose. We watched her fall in love, come undone, and rebuild more times than any soap opera would dare script. Right ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a particular quiet that settles over a sister once the auditioning for one’s own life finally stops. You can hear it in the way Gabrielle Union talks now and see it in how she carries herself. Even hard questions get answered without softening the edges. That is ...
(ThySistas.com) By now you have probably seen the clip. Coco Jones was posing on a New York sidewalk during Fashion Week, looking beautiful in her designer outfit, when a stranger decided her existence was an invitation to act ugly. The woman hurled insults like “ew” and “disgusting,” called her “Blackie,” and ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a particular quiet that settles over a grown woman once she decides she has poured everything she had into something, and now it is done. Not broken. Finished, the way a long letter finally gets signed and sealed. Misty Copeland walked into that quiet last fall, and ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a particular kind of freedom that shows up when a grown woman stops asking anybody for permission. Tisha Campbell found hers. On October 13, she turned 58, still pushing herself beyond the characters the culture has loved for decades. Last year, she stepped into stand-up comedy for ...
(ThySistas.com) Burlington sits a long way from Philadelphia, yet flip on the radio this October and you might swear Patti LaBelle moved in down the block. That voice is everywhere again. At 82, the Godmother of Soul has no interest in the quiet exit society keeps trying to hand her. ...
(ThySistas.com) Some of us remember exactly where we sat the first time Brenda Jenkins sauntered across the screen. This was NBC in 1985, the TV going in the front room while somebody’s mama hollered about supper. A Los Angeles kid named Regina King was up there on 227, playing Brenda like ...
(ThySistas.com) A woman’s job, we were taught, is to make the hard parts look easy. Took that as gospel, most of us. You hold down the house, the job, the sick relative, and the usher board. Somehow, you manage it all without letting your face slip, because the moment it ...