(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) 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) You know the laugh. Big, wide open, head thrown back, the kind that takes over a whole room before you even catch the joke. Tiffany Haddish has been handing that laugh out for close to ten years now, on talk show couches, award stages, and red carpets. While everybody ...
(ThySistas.com) Somewhere between the whistle notes and the Christmas radio takeover, folks quietly stopped crediting the part that actually built the empire. Everybody wants to marvel at how high she climbs. They will carry on for an hour about octaves and glass-shattering runs, then never once acknowledge that the lady ...
(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) 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 ...