(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) Every so often the news carries something that rearranges what you thought was possible. Word that Kwanza Jones and her husband, José E. Feliciano, had completed their purchase of controlling ownership in the San Diego Padres did exactly that for me. Their ownership group acquired control of the club ...
(ThySistas.com) Watch how folks talk about a Black woman who has her act together. The word strong gets thrown at her the way you might describe a load bearing wall. She is the one who brings the casserole when somebody dies and stays late folding programs for the repast. I ...
(ThySistas.com) Nobody hands you a manual for the season that follows a public falling short. You get parades for the wins. Flowers show up at the door. A hashtag trends for an afternoon, and folks who barely spoke to you last year suddenly remember they believed all along. Then it ...
(ThySistas.com) Somewhere in a conference room this offseason, a woman sat across from executives who run a billion dollar league and walked out having helped negotiate nearly $377 million in new contract value for her clients. Her name is Nicole Lynn. If you follow football, you already know her. If ...
(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) There is a quiet that comes for a woman when a place she poured herself into decides it is finished with her. Not the peaceful kind. The sort that sits heavy on your chest and hums in your ears. Tamron Hall knows it by name. Back in 2017 she ...
(ThySistas.com) For a great many Black women, professional advancement arrives bundled with a quiet tax that has nothing to do with competence and everything to do with the hair growing from their own scalp. A particular fatigue settles into the shoulders after years of explaining oneself to colleagues who were ...
(ThySistas.com) Financial security and emotional security are more tangled together than most personal finance columns ever bother to admit. I know women who keep every receipt in a shoebox older than their grown kids. Women who fold the twenties a particular way and count them twice before bed, like the ...
(ThySistas.com) The numbers coming out of the labor market this past year tell a story a lot of us carried in our bodies long before any economist bothered to chart it. Here is what the data says out loud. We opened 2025 with a jobless figure sitting around 5.4 percent. ...