(ThySistas.com) There is a particular kind of quiet that settles over you when you look at what you actually have in hand and hold it up against the size of what you want to build. Cathy Hughes understood that feeling long before most of us ever heard her name. Back ...
(ThySistas.com) Most of us got sold a lie so early we took it for plain fact. The story goes that youth is the best a woman ever gets, and that once the face softens and the body fills out, the good part of her is basically finished. I believed a ...
(ThySistas.com) Something happens to Black women the instant we get loud and certain of our own worth, and Claressa Shields collides with it every single time the sport gets reminded that she is the finest to ever do it. The woman says she is the greatest, and the hardware backs ...
(ThySistas.com) Angela Bassett got paid a compliment recently, the kind that always arrives wrapped in good intentions. You look incredible for your age. People mean it kind. Flattery, warm, handed over with a smile. But it snags on something in me every time, because way down under that nice sentence ...
(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 ...