(ThySistas.com) We are use to hearing people say the world is a dangerous place. Every time one turns on the news there is yet another report of violence of some kind. Granted, during the holiday season there is an increase in assaults, and violence surrounding theft. Every holiday season we ...
(ThySistas.com) Black women have proven they can show up to the polls. They are a group that can not be ignored by candidates, and they can galvanize their community exercise their right to be heard via a ballot. Some can argue black women can gauge a candidate and see past ...
(ThySistas.com) I use to watch “The View” from time to time, and I thought the show was pretty interesting. They seem to have a range of perspectives and when it came to political matters both the liberal and conservative side was represented. You would know who the Republican and Democrat ...
(ThySistas.com) If you’re black and you spend any amount of time around white people, whether in your friendship/social circle, at church, or even at work, you’ve probably been asked to explain or clarify things to them at some point. You might not think much of this, and if you want ...
(ThySistas.com) I’ve never considered myself a feminist because I find it hard to trust the direction of said movement. Far too often black women, and women of color, have been betrayed by white women while being told we are all in this together. While white women were standing with us, ...
(ThySistas.com) Robert Kelly’s (also known as R. Kelly) music is no longer considered appropriate music for most African American parties and cookouts due to his pervasive behavior with adolescents. Many people in the gay/lesbian community called for a boycott of Chik-fil-a due to their admittance of not supporting same-sex marriage. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The agribusiness sector has been intertwined with the fortunes of rural America for some time, since even before the word was coined in 1957, and it dominates discussions of the national economy to this day. These facts are unlikely to change any time soon, either, with Presidents and primary ...
(ThySistas.com) Atatiana Jefferson was shot in her home by a policeman in Fort Worth, TX. Christopher Whitfield, a black man with a mental illness, was shot by a policeman in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Isacc Madueno Santibanez, a 17-year-old, was shot by a policeman in Glendale, AZ during an illegal party. ...
(ThySistas.com) Ah…Zora Neale Hurston. A popular author? Not until after death for the most part. Why? Her truth. Most of her stories used real dialect and real conversations of African Americans in the South. She never apologized for it. Barracoon, a book written by Hurston but posthumously released, tells the ...
(ThySistas.com) In one weekend, El Paso and Dayton, thirty-one people died due to mass shootings. The Sunday prior three people died at a festival in Gilroy, California. Though the current administration won’t state the obvious, it’s safe to say domesticated terrorism is a great threat to national security. What will ...