(ThySistas.com) Somewhere in Sterling Heights tonight, under a Michigan sky already tilting toward fall, Erykah Badu stands on a stage earned twice over. The Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre marks stop number two on a run titled simply LIVE, and De La Soul is right there on the bill, the way old ...
(ThySistas.com) Public reaction to a celebrated woman’s private choices tends to arrive in two waves. Applause comes first. Then the second guessing, often dressed up as concern. Ciara, now 40 and expecting again, has become the latest study in that pattern. You would think a pregnancy inside a solid marriage ...
(ThySistas.com) Somewhere along the way we got sold a lie. It goes like this. A woman only matters while she is running herself ragged, always on, always in view. Let her slow down for a season and folks will swear she quit. Given up. Lost the fire. Eve has spent ...
(ThySistas.com) My mother used to say a woman ought to have one good trade and stick with it. Learn it deep, do it right, and let folks know you by that single thing. Solid advice for 1975, maybe. It never quite fit the shape of what Jemele Hill would become. ...
(ThySistas.com) Word crossed my timeline the way most things do now, wrapped in outrage and laughter at once. A wooden crate. Empty. Nearly a thousand dollars. My first reaction was not anger. It was that long, slow exhale my grandmother used to give when she caught grown people doing something ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a specific kind of weariness that settles into the shoulders after three decades of being everybody’s answer. You have felt it. It shows up quiet, and it sinks low in your back around nine at night when you are at the stove and the phone keeps buzzing, ...
(ThySistas.com) Some folks keep score their whole lives. Not these two. Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King settled the question of rivalry a long time ago, back when neither name meant a thing to anybody outside their own households, and every year since has been a quiet demonstration of what they ...
(ThySistas.com) The economy keeps flashing headlines that sound like relief, yet the working reality for educated Black women in 2026 tells a colder story, and the fresh numbers back it up. Start with the trick the data plays on us. This past summer the reports showed our jobless rate dropping ...
(ThySistas.com) Janet Jackson was still 19 in a Minneapolis studio when she cut a project that reset what independence could sound like. The world came to know it as Control, and 2026 has brought both a fortieth anniversary celebration and a fresh run of public appearances. Across June she played ...
(ThySistas.com) The Hollywood Bowl told the story before any statement did. Gladys Knight turned her back to the crowd in the middle of “Midnight Train to Georgia,” of all songs, the signature recording that cemented her place in American music, and started walking toward the wings. A background singer reached ...