(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) Something about catching her on the screen years ago still settles a person right down in the chest. Janet never shouted. Never needed to, either. One raised brow did the job most nights. Maybe the slow roll of a shoulder was enough. Everybody in the building knew good and ...
(ThySistas.com) Let me talk to the Sistas for a minute. The ones lying awake at three in the morning, half-convinced the sweetest part of life already came and went. A marriage, built from scratch. The kids got big. Walls that once held a family finally felt like an actual home, ...
(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 ...
(ThySistas.com) A couple of weeks back, while the rest of us sorted fall budgets and argued over whose turn it was to host Sunday dinner, Cynthia Erivo sat front row in Paris and made the whole circus pause. Dior one afternoon. Chloé the next. Valentino after that. Somebody over at ...
(ThySistas.com) Walk into an arena where Stephanie Mills is performing, and you will feel something the record business never figured out how to bottle. A woman closing in on seventy strides to the microphone, lets the opening notes of “Home” settle over the crowd, and suddenly nobody in the building ...
(ThySistas.com) Hollywood has always had a thing for the brand new. The fresh face, the 22-year-old who shows up from nowhere and gets handed a franchise, the ingenue lit like she personally invented morning. That whole machine runs on a quiet kind of cruelty: the notion that a woman’s clock ...
(ThySistas.com) A few tender photographs surfaced this autumn, and before the ink dried on the moment, half the internet had convened a town hall meeting about matters of the heart. That is roughly where many of us landed in early September, watching people dissect Letitia Wright as though she had ...