Top 20 Black History Influencers in 2026

1. Jermaine Fowler

Bio 📚 NYT Bestselling Author
✍🏾 Coming Soon: The American Myth Machine
🏛 Recovering Forgotten History
👇🏾Get My Free Newsletter *****@thehumanityarchive.com Instagram Handle @thehumanityarchive Instagram Followers 1.3M Follower Growth (3mo) +3% Type Mega Gender Male Get Email Contact Request 643 Black History Instagram Influencers with email contacts in a spreadsheet or csv file. Email us at [email protected] Copy emailEmail us

2. Blair Imani Ali

Bio Historian & educator helping you get Smarter in Seconds! Author of bestseller Read This to Get Smarter 🌈✊🏽
🏆 @time 100 creator
💌 *****@blairimani.com Instagram Handle @blairimani Instagram Followers 933.3K Follower Growth (3mo) +3% Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact

3. Jacklynn

Bio Travelling the world in pursuit of history!
VOTE for me Travel Creator of the Year ⬇️🔗
@lonelyplanet correspondent
💌 *****@wmgmt.co.uk Instagram Handle @byjacklynn Instagram Followers 656.1K Follower Growth (3mo) +4% Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact

4. Henry Louis Gates

Bio Dir. of Hutchins Center at @harvard. Catch #FindingYourRoots Tuesdays at 8/7c on PBS (check local listings). *****@harvard.edu Instagram Handle @henrylouisgates Instagram Followers 495K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

5. Kahlil Greene

Bio 🔍 Cultural Commentary, World History
📺 Seen on: @natgeo @nickelodeon
🏆 2x Emmy Nom | Peabody Winner
☎️ DAILY Newsletter & Contact info👇🏾 *****@genzhistorian.com Instagram Handle @kahlil.greene Instagram Followers 450.4K Follower Growth (3mo) +18% Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

6. Andre P White

Bio Dr. André White
Signal Award & AMBIE Winner 🏆
📧: *****@gmail.com
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST👇🏾 Instagram Handle @redactedhistory_ Instagram Followers 355.1K Follower Growth (3mo) +31% Type Macro Gender Male airwavemedia.com/our-shows/r.. + Follow Get Email Contact

7. Jermaine

Bio 🔥 Library 📚 Of Knowledge *****@yahoo.com Instagram Handle @therealblackhistorian Instagram Followers 318.1K Follower Growth (3mo) +29% Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

8. Xavier Buck

Bio The history they buried. The geopolitics they won't explain. The tactics our movements need — 3 min or less. 📩 *****@gmail.com
By @xavierbuck Instagram Handle @historyin3 Instagram Followers 263.2K Follower Growth (3mo) +9% Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

9. Cheyney McKnight

Bio 📚Public Historian
🤲🏾Historical Interpreter
🙅🏾‍♀️Not Your Mammy *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @notyourmommashistory Instagram Followers 171.5K Type Macro Gender Female youtube.com/@NotYourMommasHi.. + Follow Get Email Contact

10. Hamish Ganga

Bio I JUST LOVE AFRICAN HISTORY
6’10”,315lbs *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @african_historyandnews Instagram Followers 121K Follower Growth (3mo) -2% Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

11. Isabel Wilkerson

Bio I write about human nature. Pulitzer Prize. National Humanities Medal. Author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Instagram Handle @isabelwilkerson Instagram Followers 119.4K Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact

12. Evan Woodard

Bio 🧭: History, Relic Hunting, and Side Quests
📍: Baltimore, MD
📱: Social Team - @iamsocial.la
📨: *****@iamsocial.la
🎬: Acting - @theartistagency Instagram Handle @salvagearc Instagram Followers 117.4K Follower Growth (3mo) +3% Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

13. Lettie Gore

Bio 📚 Historian | Professor | Racial Equity Consultant
👩🏾‍🏫 M.A. History | M.A. Conflict Resolution
🔸 James Baldwin stan
🎤 @historyshowsuspodcast *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @sincerely.lettie Instagram Followers 87.8K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Micro Gender Female anchor.fm/sincerelylettie + Follow Get Email Contact

14. Latoya Coleman

Bio 📜The Anthony Bourdain of History
📚Books, Art & Culture
🎙Host of @thatwasntinmytextbook
🐶 Pet @alongcamelenox
📍NY
✉️Toya[at]ToyaFromHarlem.com *****@toyafromharlem.com Instagram Handle @toyafromharlem Instagram Followers 26.4K Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

15. Keisha N. Blain

Bio ✨ Award-winning Historian and Professor at Brown University | 📚 President of the Center for Engaged Scholarship (@centerengagedscholarship) Instagram Handle @keishanblain Instagram Followers 8.4K Follower Growth (3mo) +1% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

16. Gracia Collins Rich

Bio Sharing History Through My Historical Nonfiction/Fiction Book Collection *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @historywithher Instagram Followers 3.2K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

17. Anthony Milian

Bio Democratizing History in an increasingly Undemocratic World | 🇵🇷 Public Historian | 2026 Clyburn Fellow
📨 *****@millieup.com
👇🏿for more Instagram Handle @deffnotant Instagram Followers 258.7K Follower Growth (3mo) +3% Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

18. Axsal Omega

Bio 🌍Travel | Culture | History🌍
🙅🏾‍♂️Author Educator & Voicebox
👨🏾‍💻Group Trip Host
✈️Founder of @TheSoulFam👇🏾
🎥UGC Creator | Brand Collabs *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @omega_axsal Instagram Followers 170K Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

19. Frederick DeShon Murphy

Bio 🚙 History traveler & storyteller
Founder of History Before Us
Preserving the places, people & stories that shaped us *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @historybeforeus Instagram Followers 48.3K Follower Growth (3mo) +3% Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact

20. Marvin-Alonzo Greer

Bio Public Historian
Morehouse 🏡
ATL/DC/ STL
#blackhistorian #blackhistory #mueum #publichistory *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @magthehistorian Instagram Followers 25.7K Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact