(ThySistas.com) There is one photograph on my phone I keep returning to, more often than I would care to admit. My daughter took it a couple summers ago, up on a ridge in the Blue Ridge Mountains, my arms thrown wide and my hair pushed off my face. You can ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a version of me that lives inside certain records, and she is not sad. Took me years to catch on. For most of my grown life I figured heartbreak was the deepest place a song could take you. The playlist that counted, I believed, was the one ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a specific hush that falls over music criticism once an artist becomes too important to fail, and Beyoncé crossed into that territory years ago. The proof arrived on the Fourth of July, when she released a track called “Morning Dew (Donk)” as a surprise offering to the ...
(ThySistas.com) By the time Cardi B closed out the opening night of ESSENCE Fest this year, the hour was late and the Superdome still held a crowd. That tells you plenty. Folks stayed. They wanted her there. I have been coming to this festival, on and off, since my thirties, ...
(ThySistas.com) When I study history, I find it liberating to read about how hard our people fought for the right to education. They were willing to die for the ability to read and write for themselves. Many of our people would be denied formal education. They were self-taught and many ...
(ThySistas.com) There’s something timeless about watching a Black child hold a physical book. The way their fingers trace the cover, the way their eyes widen at a picture or a sentence, the way their whole body leans into the story like they’re stepping into another world. In 2026, when everything ...
(ThySistas.com) Sisterhood and mentorship are vital for Black women when we begin to discuss culture, and what informs us. We need and deserve to have trusted spaces that are judgement free, corrective when needed, loving, full of wisdom, affirm us, and look like us. The truth is many of us ...
(ThySistas.com) The world is a much smaller place now than it was for many of us growing up. Community and family were one in the same for so many of us. If you came from a medium to large family your closest friends coming up very well might have been ...
(ThySistas.com) There are so many professions that hold serious responsibilities that we understand and respect. We know that anyone can’t just wake up and decide to be a doctor, lawyer or engineer. Unfortunately there is not the same understanding for religious positions. Every pastor is not part times…there are some ...
(ThySistas.com) As a New Orleanian I approached this “Blood Debts” by Terry J Benton-Walker with an anticipated caution. I was immediately excited to see a fantasy fiction that didn’t necessary read as fantasy much to me, and it was centered around Black people by a Black author. Most of the ...