Recommendations for Instagram
- @aclu_nationwide - Breaking news updates and know-your-rights information.
- @adolescentcontent - Gen Z creative community that shares information on educating, donating, and fighting for racial justice (among other things).
- @blackfutureslab - Works with Black people to transform communities by building Black political power & changing the way power operates in cities and states.
- @blklivesmatter - Official Instagram account for Black Lives Matter global network
- @campaignzero - Campaign with research-based policy solutions to end police brutality in America.
- @ckyourprivilege - Offers resources with the goal of helping people dismantle their relationship with power, privilege, and racism.
- @eatokratheapp - Instagram for the Eat Okra app with 2500+ black-owned restaurants across a range of cities.
- @eji_org - Equal Justice Initiative Instagram account. EJI works to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment and racial inequality.
- @ethelsclub - Social and wellness club that celebrates people of color; offers free healing and grieving group sessions for the Black community.
- @goodgoodgoodco - Digital newspaper dedicated to sharing goods news; has been posting information on how to be actively anti-racist.
- @ijeomaoluo - Author of So You Want To Talk About Race
- @indyamoore - Shares action items on how to help black folks on the ground in Minneapolis & beyond.
- @museummammy - Writer, curator, and activist; posts about Black Lives Matter
- @mvmnt4blklives - M4BL is a national network of over 150 leaders and organizations creating a broad political home for Black people to learn, organize, and take action.
- @naacp - Founded 1909, the NAACP is the nation's first and largest grassroots–based civil rights organization.
- @nowhitesaviors - Advocacy campaign led by a nearly all-female African team of professionals in Uganda with the goal of “seeing things change in a more equitable and anti-racist direction.”
- @r29unbothered - Made by and for Black millennial women, this Refinery 29 vertical champions Black voices and art.
- @sunrisemvmt - Youth-led movement to stop climate change and is fighting for Black lives. For more on how racism is at the core of climate change, read this article.
- @tamikadmallory - Activist and organizer; one of the leading organizers of the Women’s March. Co-Founder of Until Freedom.
- @thefutureleft - Organizing group shares information and actions.
- @untilfreedom - Organization of lawyers, artists, survivors of injustice, and organizers fighting for racial justice
- @yourrightscamp - Funded by Colin Kaepernick, the Know Your Rights Campaign is a free campaign for youth that strives to raise awareness on self-empowering Black people by working with law enforcement.
New York-specific Instagram accounts
- @blackownedbklyn - A curated guide to Black Brooklyn’s people, places and products.
- @blmgreaterny - Black Lives Matter coalition for Greater New York.
- @changethenypd - Police reform campaign keeping you updated on all things NYPD & how to hold them accountable.
- @justiceforgeorgenyc - Information about protests happening in NYC.
- @nyclu - New York affiliate of the ACLU; has information on actions you can take.
Recommendations for Twitter
- @AbbyDPhillip: CNN Political Correspondent
- @AdamSerwer: Staff writer at The Atlantic
- @Ahylton26: Correspondent for NBC News and Quibi
- @AprilDRyan: White House Correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks and Political Analyst for CNN
- @AyannaPressley: Congresswoman
- @CharlesMBlow: NYT Columnist and author
- @ClintSmithIII: Writer, teacher, and emerson fellow at New America
- @Dstfelix: Writer at the New Yorker
- @Eveewing: Writer
- @Dorianwarren: President of Community Change
- @ItsgabrielleU
- @JamiaW: Writer
- @Jamiles: Staff writer at Marshall Project
- @JamilSmith: Senior Writer at Rolling Stone
- @JBouie: NYT Opinion columnist and CBS news analyst
- @JDuffyrice: President of The Appeal
- @Jelani9: Staff writer the New Yorker
- @JoyAnnReid: MSNBC Host
- @KeithEllison: Minnesota AG
- @Michaelharriot: Senior Writer at the The Root
- @MsPackyetti: Activist, writer, educator
- @Mvmnt4BlkLives
- @NHannahJones: Creator, 1619 Project
- @SamSwey: Co-Founder of Campaign Zero
- @SiFill_LDF: President and Director-Counsel of LDF
- @TiffanyDCross: author, fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics, political commentator
- @Trymainelee: Correspondent MSNBC, host of Into America podcast, writer
- @WesleyLowery: Was WaPo correspondent, now correspondent for 60 minutes.
- @Yamiche: PBS White House Correspondent
- @ZellieImani: an activist who started the Black Liberation Collective, great content focused on all black everything.