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Why I Built This

Some stories are too important to only live on social media.

I built The Tall Cotton as a digital archive - a home for stories of (mainly) Black wealth, ownership, strategy, and legacy. The kind of stories you don’t just scroll past  -  you sit with. You study. You remember. Reality is that I can google a lot of this information and get it in a million different places, but its not in ONE place. 

This for me, is a record. A blueprint. A celebration.

Because being in “tall cotton” isn’t just about money - it’s about standing tall because you planted right.

For a while now, I’ve talked about building something like this. I wasn’t sure when or how, but I knew the idea would never really leave me alone until I started. So today, I decided to stop talking and start building. Andironically, I never had a name until like two thanksgivings ago when my aunt was telling a story and mentioned, “high cotton” and I said, what is that??? Family is from the south but I grew up in the west. I’d never heard that term but I said I need to tuck that away, for something

Honesstly, I don’t know exactly what this will become. Maybe it’s just a quiet little corner of the internet. Maybe it grows into something bigger. But for now - this is a passion project. Built with care. Built with intention.

The profiles come naturally to me. I like to write. I like research. I like finding the patterns in people’s moves and documenting how they quietly turned fame, grit, or vision into legacy.

The real heavy lifting will come with the podcast. I want to tell these stories in narrative audio  -  something deep and cinematic. Not just interviews, but real storytelling. I also plan to create short-form video content for social, so these stories can live quickly and memorably.

We’ll tell stories of athletes who became moguls, entrepreneurs who moved in silence, and women building empires behind the scenes.

This is for the culture, but also for the curious. For those looking to build their own legacy, one decision at a time.

This is The Tall Cotton.