(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 ...
(ThySistas.com) “Jeeeesus is looooooove….” I can hear Lionel Richie singing that song about a very popular entity in the Christian religion. The song elaborates on a really important value to Christianity: love. Love for your fellow man. Love for self. Love for HIM because of HIS sacrifice. As a Christian, ...
(ThySistas.com) There is so much hypocrisy concerning the subject of abortion. What is considered “pro-life”? How do we decided whose life should have value? We live in a country that doesn’t value the life, and wellness of children, yet some want to discuss the concept of pro-life. It’s hypocritical to ...
(ThySistas.com) You thought Uncle Sam was all in people’s business before, well now, to apply for a US visa, all applicants will have to submit their social media information. According to Twitter in US news, “Almost all foreign visitors to the United States are now required to provide their social ...
(ThySistas.com) When it comes to remembering history and looking at the things which happened in the world that impacted us today, one of the stand out has to be World War II. This war is the most recent large scale war in our history and one of the biggest events ...
(ThySistas.com) Trump’s border wall policy is once again causing tension and has led to a partial government shutdown. A recent spending bill which contained a $5 billion budget for the building of the border wall has failed to pass the Senate and the deadlock has resulted in a partial government shutdown. ...
(ThySistas.com) I’ve had a friend we’ll call Beth since the ninth grade. Though I seemed weird to some for my nerdy ways she and I seemed to understand each other quite well. We shared a love of books, video games, Japanese manga, and anime. She was becoming someone I’d called sister ...
(ThySistas.com) There’s something that is bothering me. I understand, intimately, the particular damage that is done to anyone who has experienced sexual abuse. It literally shreds the soul and changes who we are. At the very beginning of this #metoo movement, I was up bright and early and quickly added my ...
(ThySistas.com) Ladies we are in a time by which it is considered strength to stand up against those that perpetuate rape culture. It is important to note rape culture is not something that just affects women, as we are not the only victims of such. Furthermore, men are not the only ...