The First Word

Tahj & Co. began in a moment of discontent-

not with creation itself, but with what creation had become.

When Black creativity was murmuring beneath noise and clutter,

when urban stories, literary worlds, and artistic worlds

felt scattered- not stitched into a lineage or sanctuary-

I saw something missing: a place where language lives,

where stories breathe without compromise.

Rooted in the belief that all forms of literary expression

are vital and that access should never be gated,

Tahj & Co. exists as a quiet resistance.

Not to broadcast- but to hold.

To be a breath of renewal, a hint of the Harlem Renaissance,

a place for the new Black news, Black art, and Black culture

brought forward through stories written and shaped with precision.

It began as a lab; a practice-

a workshop of words that hurt and healed in the same breath.

And from that soil grew work meant to be kept,

not just consumed.

Where others chased trends, we chase depth-

and let the pen carve a space worth returning to.

From that beginning, a practice formed…