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r/BlackHistoryPhotos

Black History is every day!. Rare and candid photography of Black History. Both of public figures, events, and regular people. Founded 2012 · 105.6K members

106.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 20K upvotes, which works out to 187 per 1,000 members.

187peak upvotes per 1,000 members
106.9Kmembers
20Kbest post
371most comments
412posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

54% 24% 17%
Image 54% Gallery 24% Video 17% Link 4% Text 1%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Tracy Chapman had already performed earlier in the day for Nelson Mandela’s 70th. Stevie Wonder was about to go on when technical difficulties forced…

↑ 20K 💬 305 video 2026

A member of the Harlem Hellfighters (369th Infantry Regiment) poses for the camera while holding a puppy he saved during WWI, 1918.

↑ 16.9K 💬 109 image 2026

Dr. Vivien Thomas

↑ 13.3K 💬 131 image 2026

First Miss South Africa 🕊

↑ 12.7K 💬 90 image 2026

A Black American man emerges from using the “White Men Only” bathroom at courthouse in Clinton, Louisiana, 1964.

↑ 11.4K 💬 103 image 2025

107 year old Viola Ford Fletcher preparing to give testimony to Congress about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, in its 100th anniversary year. She was o…

↑ 11.2K 💬 61 image 2025

School production of Swan Lake 1990 Florida

↑ 11.2K 💬 63 image 2026

🙏 Gone but never forgotten

↑ 11.1K 💬 108 image 2026

Barack and Malia Obama in 2005

↑ 11.1K 💬 68 image 2026

Track athlete Florence Griffith Joyner with girls the day her barbie doll came out, June of 1989

↑ 9.3K 💬 72 gallery 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/BlackHistoryPhotos, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/BlackHistoryPhotos?
r/BlackHistoryPhotos ("Black History is every day!") describes itself this way: Rare and candid photography of Black History. Both of public figures, events, and regular people. It was founded in 2012 and has 105.6K members.
How many members does r/BlackHistoryPhotos have?
r/BlackHistoryPhotos has about 106.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 412 of its posts; the biggest reached 20K upvotes, which is 187 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/BlackHistoryPhotos?
"Tracy Chapman had already performed earlier in the day for Nelson Mandela’s 70th. Stevie Wonder was about to go on when technical difficulti" reached 20K upvotes and 305 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/BlackHistoryPhotos.
What subreddits are similar to r/BlackHistoryPhotos?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/PopularCultureZone.
What kind of posts do best on r/BlackHistoryPhotos?
Of the posts we hold, 54% are image posts and 24% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/BlackHistoryPhotos?
Across 412 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 16:00 UTC (6.5K avg upvotes), Thursday at 16:00 UTC (5.7K avg upvotes), Sunday at 04:00 UTC (5.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/BlackHistoryPhotos?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/BlackHistoryPhotos has 7.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 24 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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