Meet Seventeen Voices of the Year honoree Kahlil Greene! 🎙Kahlil_Greene, also known as the “Gen Z Historian,” uses his TikTok following to educate his followers on the truth of Black history in the United States.
As the “Gen Z Historian” on TikTok, Kahlil Greene educates 581.3K followers on the truth of Black history in the United States and the whitewashing of historical moments, leaders, and their legacies. His TikToks have received a total 8 million likes, and views on certain videos have reached as high as 4.6 million.
Kahlil’s journey as the Gen Z Historian began in January 2021, when he uploaded a TikTok about the whitewashing of Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. The clip garnered 1.4 million views and hundreds of thousands of likes, and from there, Kahlil discovered a platform to inform his peers on the realities of lesser-known historical moments and cultural movements.
As he looks toward more content creation, potential movement to different platforms like YouTube and mainstream media, and expanding his teachings into book form, the Gen Z Historian’s goal remains the same: “I just want to try and continue to use my expertise in interesting ways.”The conversations happening on TikTok was my motivation. For example, in 2020, there were discussions about the origins of Aunt Jemima syrup that forced the company to change their title to the Pearl Milling Company.
There was one person who stitched one of my videos and said, ‘This is amazing because I've had all of these ideas but I've just never been able to say them, let alone say them in one minute.’ She felt empowered because many people she knows in the Black community have wanted to be able to communicate certain ideas but to no avail. They said that the way I explained issues made it click for them, and they know it'll click for anyone who watches.
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