Top 20 Black History Influencers in 2026

1. Jermaine Fowler

Bio 📚 NYT Bestseller
✍🏾 American Myth Machine (2027)
🏛 Recovering forgotten history
📩 *****@thehumanityarchive.com
Join my 36K+ newsletter readers👇🏾 Instagram Handle @thehumanityarchive Instagram Followers 1.3M Follower Growth (3mo) +3% Type Mega Gender Male thehumanityarchive.com/podca.. + Follow Get Email Contact Request 635 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 Let’s get Smarter in Seconds!
co-host @thoughtsaboutfeelingspod bestselling author of Read This to Get Smarter
📍Los Angeles
💌 *****@blairimani.com Instagram Handle @blairimani Instagram Followers 904.7K Follower Growth (3mo) +3% Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact

3. Jacklynn

Bio Travelling the world in pursuit of history (and sometimes just for a little adventure!)
@lonelyplanet correspondent
Partnerships: *****@wmgmt.co.uk Instagram Handle @byjacklynn Instagram Followers 644K Follower Growth (3mo) +3% 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 492.3K Follower Growth (3mo) +4% Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

5. Kahlil Greene

Bio 🔍 Exposing historical injustice | 📍Boston, MA
🏆 2x Emmy Nom | Peabody Award Winner
📰 @forbes 30U30 | @time 100 Creators
☎️ Contact, @substack👇🏾 *****@genzhistorian.com Instagram Handle @kahlil.greene Instagram Followers 429.1K Follower Growth (3mo) +12% Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

6. Andre P White

Bio 2025 Signal Award & 2026 AMBIE Winner 🏆
📧: *****@gmail.com
Teaching you the history they don’t want you to know 🫡
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST👇🏾 Instagram Handle @redactedhistory_ Instagram Followers 308.9K Follower Growth (3mo) +89% Type Macro Gender Male airwavemedia.com/our-shows/r.. + Follow Get Email Contact

7. 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

8. Jermaine

Bio 🔥 Library 📚 Of Knowledge *****@yahoo.com Instagram Handle @therealblackhistorian Instagram Followers 253.3K Follower Growth (3mo) +7% Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

9. 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 242.6K Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

10. 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

11. 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 170.7K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

12. Hamish Ganga

Bio I JUST LOVE AFRICAN HISTORY
6’10”,315lbs *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @african_historyandnews Instagram Followers 121.9K Follower Growth (3mo) -2% Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

13. 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

14. Evan Woodard

Bio 🧭: History | Travel | Adventure
📍: Baltimore, MD
📨: *****@iamsocial.la Instagram Handle @salvagearc Instagram Followers 113.7K Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

15. 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 88.5K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Micro Gender Female anchor.fm/sincerelylettie + Follow Get Email Contact

16. 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

17. 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 26.3K Follower Growth (3mo) +3% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

18. Keisha N. Blain

Bio ✨ Award-winning Historian and Professor at Brown University | 📚 President of the Center for Engaged Scholarship Instagram Handle @keishanblain Instagram Followers 8.3K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

19. Gracia Collins Rich

Bio Sharing History Through My Historical Nonfiction/Fiction Book Collection *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @historywithher Instagram Followers 3.2K Type Nano Gender Female 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 25.8K Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact