Legacy Girls™ is the first storytelling brand of its kind—period.
Legacy Girls™: A Brand Rooted in Story, Identity, and Legacy
Legacy Girls™ is a mission-driven publishing, education, and intellectual property brand built to uplift, inspire, and empower Black girls and their families through storytelling, history, culturally rooted values, and creativity. Through heartfelt fiction, educational tools, and original games, we equip a new generation to know who they are, where they come from, and what they can build.
At the heart of Legacy Girls™ is a deep commitment to crafting powerful, character-driven stories that center the lives, voices, and legacies of Black girls—past, present, and future. With tenderness, truth, and pride, we honor the fullness of their experiences through culturally immersive narratives rooted in love, faith, family, and resilience.
We believe every child deserves to see themselves reflected in stories that celebrate identity, amplify intergenerational wisdom, and illuminate the beauty of finding your voice. Our mission is simple but profound:
“To stitch together legacy, identity, and learning — one girl at a time.”
Our debut series, Stitched, begins with Zaria—a modern fifth grader navigating the delicate balance of friendship, self-doubt, and cultural identity at school. When her grandmother moves in, Zaria discovers a family heirloom quilt stitched with stories from generations past. As each patch unfolds, so does her understanding of who she is and where she comes from.
Every book in the Stitched collection threads the story of a powerful ancestor into Zaria’s journey, weaving together the fabric of personal growth, cultural pride, and Black girlhood with purpose and legacy.
Legacy Girls™ doesn’t just tell stories.
We build legacy—one girl, one tool, one generation at a time.
Legacy Girls™ is the first publishing and media platform to center both modern and historical girlhood through an interconnected, intergenerational narrative world—woven together by heirlooms and built on original characters, culturally grounded fiction, and transformative educational tools.
And yes, it’s unapologetically Black.
Legacy Girls™ was created to reflect the depth, brilliance, and beauty of Black girlhood—across skin tones, languages, faith traditions, and generations. From front porches to classrooms, from the city to the country, we tell our stories in full color, full dignity, and full legacy.
No other brand—Black or otherwise—has:
A modern girl whose story is directly connected to the women who came before her
A symbolic thread of heirlooms that ties together timelines, tools, and character arcs
Fiction + educator toolkits designed for both identity development and intergenerational pride
A platform built from scratch by a Black woman, mother, writer, and visionary—not by committee, not by trend, and not by accident
We’re not just reflecting history.
We’re reclaiming it—and stitching something new.
Legacy Girls™ isn’t following a formula. We are the blueprint.
A creative sanctuary where Black girls are centered, celebrated, and seen.
The Legacy Behind Legacy Girls
“We don’t just tell stories. We remember them—and we remember each other.”
Legacy Girls™ was born from both a wound—and a dream.
A wound carried through generations: the ache of displacement, the hush of erased voices, the fracture of stolen stories.
And a dream, stitched in resistance: to reclaim what was taken, restore what was buried, and reconnect Black girls across borders, tongues, skin tones, and traditions.
For centuries, our legacies were fragmented. We were told our history began in bondage—not in brilliance and innovation.
That our stories were too heavy, too niche, too invisible to matter.
But that was never true.
So a mother, a writer, and a daughter of the South picked up the thread—determined to rebuild what was lost. Not with noise, but with narrative.
With books that heal. With characters who reflect the richness of who we are.
Legacy Girls™ isn’t about one version of Black girlhood—it’s about all of us.
The deep brown and the golden-hued.
The Southern-rooted and the island-born.
The Spanish-speaking, the Creole-talking.
The girls raised on front porches, in tight apartments, under church pews, or on wide-open land.
It’s for the ones who call her Nana, or Abuela, Big Mama, Madea, or Memaw.
Each Legacy Girl is a reflection of someone real—a thread in the quilt of our diaspora. Together, they form a tapestry stitched with truth, tenderness, and unstoppable pride.
We don’t rush childhood here.
We honor it.
This is not just storytelling.
This is remembrance.
This is restoration.
This is healing through heritage.
Legacy Girls™ is where Black girls find themselves—across time, across countries, across the silence.
Because even when our stories were erased, we were never forgotten.
And now? We will be remembered.
In full color.
In every tongue.
In every girl.
Meet the Founder/Author
Tamicka Leonard is a writer, storyteller, and the founder of Legacy Girls™, a brand dedicated to celebrating Black girlhood across generations.
A mother, writer, and visionary, Tamicka creates stories that honor legacy, uplift identity, and spark self-discovery. As an attorney turned creative entrepreneur, she understands the power of storytelling to build confidence, reclaim space, and shift what feels possible.
Legacy Girls™ was born from a deeply personal place—a desire to give her daughters and girls everywhere the stories she wished she had growing up. Stories where Black girls are centered, not sidelined. Stories stitched with faith, history, and quiet strength. Stories that remind every reader she’s part of something bigger.
Tamicka draws inspiration from her Southern roots, her role as a mother, and her lifelong love of storytelling. Her debut middle grade novel, Stitched: Zaria’s Story, is the first in a powerful series that honors the journey of finding your voice—and knowing where you come from.
She’s building an empire rooted in storytelling, legacy, and love—and she’s just getting started.