(ThySistas.com) Thirty four years together as husband and wife. Let that sink in. Most couples I came up watching did not make it past the first baby, let alone three decades and change. So when a marriage clocks that much mileage and the people in it still like each other, ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a lesson the most accomplished women among us tend to learn early, and rarely gently. Competence and popularity are not the same currency, and the exchange rate between them has never once been fair. Excellence earns admiration right up until it begins to inconvenience the people grown ...
(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) The economy keeps flashing headlines that sound like relief, yet the working reality for educated Black women in 2026 tells a colder story, and the fresh numbers back it up. Start with the trick the data plays on us. This past summer the reports showed our jobless rate dropping ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a particular sting that lands when the person meant to open doors decides to measure you for the exit instead. Michelle Robinson met it as a teenager in Chicago, seated across from a college counselor at Whitney Young High School who studied her ambitions and suggested she ...
(ThySistas.com) Mentorship gets framed a certain style in our heads, and most of us swallow the picture without a blink. An older woman pulls a younger one aside. They grab coffee. Out come the things nobody bothered to tell her when she was coming up. That picture is warm and ...
(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 ...