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Onyx Impact seeks to better understand how Black communities engage with information, fight harmful information ecosystems targeting Black voters, and empower Black communities. https://www.digitalgreenbook.org/
The Blackout Report makes one thing painfully clear:
15,000+ documented incidents don’t happen by accident.
They form a pattern, one that endangers Black health, economic mobility, and the future we’re fighting for.
We mapped the truth. Now it’s time to confront it.
15,000+ documented incidents don’t happen by accident.
They form a pattern, one that endangers Black health, economic mobility, and the future we’re fighting for.
We mapped the truth. Now it’s time to confront it.
December 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The Blackout Report makes one thing painfully clear:
15,000+ documented incidents don’t happen by accident.
They form a pattern, one that endangers Black health, economic mobility, and the future we’re fighting for.
We mapped the truth. Now it’s time to confront it.
15,000+ documented incidents don’t happen by accident.
They form a pattern, one that endangers Black health, economic mobility, and the future we’re fighting for.
We mapped the truth. Now it’s time to confront it.
Three-Fifths wasn’t a glitch. In fact, it feels eerily relevant today.
It was the blueprint:
Use Black bodies to gain power but deny Black people the power to use it.
It feels like we're still seeing the ripple effects today.
It was the blueprint:
Use Black bodies to gain power but deny Black people the power to use it.
It feels like we're still seeing the ripple effects today.
December 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Three-Fifths wasn’t a glitch. In fact, it feels eerily relevant today.
It was the blueprint:
Use Black bodies to gain power but deny Black people the power to use it.
It feels like we're still seeing the ripple effects today.
It was the blueprint:
Use Black bodies to gain power but deny Black people the power to use it.
It feels like we're still seeing the ripple effects today.
This isn’t random. It’s coordinated.
When you strip data, erase history, and defund progress, you’re rolling back civil rights at a scale we haven’t seen since Reconstruction.
Read the full Axios story here: https://www.axios.com/2025/11/29/funding-cuts-erasing-black-history-blackout-report
When you strip data, erase history, and defund progress, you’re rolling back civil rights at a scale we haven’t seen since Reconstruction.
Read the full Axios story here: https://www.axios.com/2025/11/29/funding-cuts-erasing-black-history-blackout-report
December 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This isn’t random. It’s coordinated.
When you strip data, erase history, and defund progress, you’re rolling back civil rights at a scale we haven’t seen since Reconstruction.
Read the full Axios story here: https://www.axios.com/2025/11/29/funding-cuts-erasing-black-history-blackout-report
When you strip data, erase history, and defund progress, you’re rolling back civil rights at a scale we haven’t seen since Reconstruction.
Read the full Axios story here: https://www.axios.com/2025/11/29/funding-cuts-erasing-black-history-blackout-report
Platforms profit from our culture, our image, and our voices but rarely protect us.
Ownership of our likeness and digital footprint isn’t optional. Staying informed and staying diligent is a must.
It’s how we stay safe, empowered, and in control.
Ownership of our likeness and digital footprint isn’t optional. Staying informed and staying diligent is a must.
It’s how we stay safe, empowered, and in control.
December 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Platforms profit from our culture, our image, and our voices but rarely protect us.
Ownership of our likeness and digital footprint isn’t optional. Staying informed and staying diligent is a must.
It’s how we stay safe, empowered, and in control.
Ownership of our likeness and digital footprint isn’t optional. Staying informed and staying diligent is a must.
It’s how we stay safe, empowered, and in control.
Tyler Perry wasn’t being dramatic. He was being accurate.
Black history is being censored, sanitized, and stripped from public memory.
The Blackout Report tracks the tactics behind this erasure and the impact it has on our culture, safety, and political power.
Black history is being censored, sanitized, and stripped from public memory.
The Blackout Report tracks the tactics behind this erasure and the impact it has on our culture, safety, and political power.
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Tyler Perry wasn’t being dramatic. He was being accurate.
Black history is being censored, sanitized, and stripped from public memory.
The Blackout Report tracks the tactics behind this erasure and the impact it has on our culture, safety, and political power.
Black history is being censored, sanitized, and stripped from public memory.
The Blackout Report tracks the tactics behind this erasure and the impact it has on our culture, safety, and political power.
Money. Power. Respect.
How do our communities get any of that when the blueprint is being erased?
This goes beyond politics. This is survival. We’re grateful to Jadakiss for using his voice to make sure nobody deletes our future.
Read The Blackout Report: https://blackoutreport.org/
How do our communities get any of that when the blueprint is being erased?
This goes beyond politics. This is survival. We’re grateful to Jadakiss for using his voice to make sure nobody deletes our future.
Read The Blackout Report: https://blackoutreport.org/
November 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Money. Power. Respect.
How do our communities get any of that when the blueprint is being erased?
This goes beyond politics. This is survival. We’re grateful to Jadakiss for using his voice to make sure nobody deletes our future.
Read The Blackout Report: https://blackoutreport.org/
How do our communities get any of that when the blueprint is being erased?
This goes beyond politics. This is survival. We’re grateful to Jadakiss for using his voice to make sure nobody deletes our future.
Read The Blackout Report: https://blackoutreport.org/
There’s a war for Black America’s reality.
In her Rolling Out feature, Esosa Osa breaks down the truth behind the disinformation campaigns erasing Black progress and how we're documenting 15,000+ attacks on our communities.
Read the full story → https://bit.ly/4nWQUlK
In her Rolling Out feature, Esosa Osa breaks down the truth behind the disinformation campaigns erasing Black progress and how we're documenting 15,000+ attacks on our communities.
Read the full story → https://bit.ly/4nWQUlK
November 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
There’s a war for Black America’s reality.
In her Rolling Out feature, Esosa Osa breaks down the truth behind the disinformation campaigns erasing Black progress and how we're documenting 15,000+ attacks on our communities.
Read the full story → https://bit.ly/4nWQUlK
In her Rolling Out feature, Esosa Osa breaks down the truth behind the disinformation campaigns erasing Black progress and how we're documenting 15,000+ attacks on our communities.
Read the full story → https://bit.ly/4nWQUlK
🎙️ “You got McDonald’s money?” 🍟
Kam is back with a brand-new episode of Truth or Trap, and this time it’s all about generational knowledge — from classic Black sayings to Michael Jackson’s The Wiz.
One thing’s for sure: the lessons (and laughs) keep passing down.
Kam is back with a brand-new episode of Truth or Trap, and this time it’s all about generational knowledge — from classic Black sayings to Michael Jackson’s The Wiz.
One thing’s for sure: the lessons (and laughs) keep passing down.
November 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
🎙️ “You got McDonald’s money?” 🍟
Kam is back with a brand-new episode of Truth or Trap, and this time it’s all about generational knowledge — from classic Black sayings to Michael Jackson’s The Wiz.
One thing’s for sure: the lessons (and laughs) keep passing down.
Kam is back with a brand-new episode of Truth or Trap, and this time it’s all about generational knowledge — from classic Black sayings to Michael Jackson’s The Wiz.
One thing’s for sure: the lessons (and laughs) keep passing down.
🚨 Highest Black unemployment since 2021
🚨 $640M in cuts to Black programs + research
🚨 6,247 federal datasets distorted or deleted
This isn’t “culture war.” It’s an attack on jobs, health, and futures.
The numbers don’t lie.
See the full report at: https://blackoutreport.org/
🚨 $640M in cuts to Black programs + research
🚨 6,247 federal datasets distorted or deleted
This isn’t “culture war.” It’s an attack on jobs, health, and futures.
The numbers don’t lie.
See the full report at: https://blackoutreport.org/
November 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
🚨 Highest Black unemployment since 2021
🚨 $640M in cuts to Black programs + research
🚨 6,247 federal datasets distorted or deleted
This isn’t “culture war.” It’s an attack on jobs, health, and futures.
The numbers don’t lie.
See the full report at: https://blackoutreport.org/
🚨 $640M in cuts to Black programs + research
🚨 6,247 federal datasets distorted or deleted
This isn’t “culture war.” It’s an attack on jobs, health, and futures.
The numbers don’t lie.
See the full report at: https://blackoutreport.org/
🎙️ Kam hits Virginia Beach — and the answers are... 😂
From Hampton vs. Howard debates to calling out the truth behind the Tuskegee Experiment, this episode of Truth or Trap proves that learning our history can be fun and fire.
Knowing what’s real is how we protect our stories.
From Hampton vs. Howard debates to calling out the truth behind the Tuskegee Experiment, this episode of Truth or Trap proves that learning our history can be fun and fire.
Knowing what’s real is how we protect our stories.
November 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🎙️ Kam hits Virginia Beach — and the answers are... 😂
From Hampton vs. Howard debates to calling out the truth behind the Tuskegee Experiment, this episode of Truth or Trap proves that learning our history can be fun and fire.
Knowing what’s real is how we protect our stories.
From Hampton vs. Howard debates to calling out the truth behind the Tuskegee Experiment, this episode of Truth or Trap proves that learning our history can be fun and fire.
Knowing what’s real is how we protect our stories.
Esosa Osa breaks down how we fight disinformation with innovation.
From the Digital Green Book to Aisha, Esosa shows how we can protect our stories, choose trusted Black-led sources, and build digital spaces that keep our community informed and resilient.
From the Digital Green Book to Aisha, Esosa shows how we can protect our stories, choose trusted Black-led sources, and build digital spaces that keep our community informed and resilient.
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Esosa Osa breaks down how we fight disinformation with innovation.
From the Digital Green Book to Aisha, Esosa shows how we can protect our stories, choose trusted Black-led sources, and build digital spaces that keep our community informed and resilient.
From the Digital Green Book to Aisha, Esosa shows how we can protect our stories, choose trusted Black-led sources, and build digital spaces that keep our community informed and resilient.
When Stacey Abrams speaks the world listens.
On #ListenToBlackWomen via madame Noire, she shouted out our founder Esosa Osa and our AI tool Aisha.
We built Aisha to provide facts, context, and clarity in a world flooded with misinformation.
Learn more at OnyxImpact.org/Aisha
On #ListenToBlackWomen via madame Noire, she shouted out our founder Esosa Osa and our AI tool Aisha.
We built Aisha to provide facts, context, and clarity in a world flooded with misinformation.
Learn more at OnyxImpact.org/Aisha
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
When Stacey Abrams speaks the world listens.
On #ListenToBlackWomen via madame Noire, she shouted out our founder Esosa Osa and our AI tool Aisha.
We built Aisha to provide facts, context, and clarity in a world flooded with misinformation.
Learn more at OnyxImpact.org/Aisha
On #ListenToBlackWomen via madame Noire, she shouted out our founder Esosa Osa and our AI tool Aisha.
We built Aisha to provide facts, context, and clarity in a world flooded with misinformation.
Learn more at OnyxImpact.org/Aisha
WHAT’S GOOD, FAM?! Black voters showed out this election and history was made! 💪🏾✨
This is what progress looks like. Black leadership is rising — one ballot, one victory, one new chapter at a time.
This is what progress looks like. Black leadership is rising — one ballot, one victory, one new chapter at a time.
November 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
WHAT’S GOOD, FAM?! Black voters showed out this election and history was made! 💪🏾✨
This is what progress looks like. Black leadership is rising — one ballot, one victory, one new chapter at a time.
This is what progress looks like. Black leadership is rising — one ballot, one victory, one new chapter at a time.
24 million Americans could lose their healthcare because Congress refuses to do its job.
The “Just Fix It” campaign, led by Stacey Abrams’ @10stepscampaign, is calling on everyday people to flood Congress with proof of rising healthcare costs and demand a fix.
The “Just Fix It” campaign, led by Stacey Abrams’ @10stepscampaign, is calling on everyday people to flood Congress with proof of rising healthcare costs and demand a fix.
November 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM
24 million Americans could lose their healthcare because Congress refuses to do its job.
The “Just Fix It” campaign, led by Stacey Abrams’ @10stepscampaign, is calling on everyday people to flood Congress with proof of rising healthcare costs and demand a fix.
The “Just Fix It” campaign, led by Stacey Abrams’ @10stepscampaign, is calling on everyday people to flood Congress with proof of rising healthcare costs and demand a fix.
🕶️ Erasure. Distortion. Suppression.
Ciera Foster breaks it all down: how history gets rewritten in real time, and why The Blackout Report isn’t just data but a mirror, a map, and a mandate.
They’re not just hiding the truth — they’re hiding the harm.
#BlackoutReport
Ciera Foster breaks it all down: how history gets rewritten in real time, and why The Blackout Report isn’t just data but a mirror, a map, and a mandate.
They’re not just hiding the truth — they’re hiding the harm.
#BlackoutReport
November 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
🕶️ Erasure. Distortion. Suppression.
Ciera Foster breaks it all down: how history gets rewritten in real time, and why The Blackout Report isn’t just data but a mirror, a map, and a mandate.
They’re not just hiding the truth — they’re hiding the harm.
#BlackoutReport
Ciera Foster breaks it all down: how history gets rewritten in real time, and why The Blackout Report isn’t just data but a mirror, a map, and a mandate.
They’re not just hiding the truth — they’re hiding the harm.
#BlackoutReport
Disinformation just got an upgrade.
Kam and Esosa break down how AI and fake accounts are being weaponized to target Black voters, from AI-generated DMs to fake election news on TikTok.
It’s getting harder to tell truth from trap.
Kicks & Clickbait Episode 4 drops next week.
Kam and Esosa break down how AI and fake accounts are being weaponized to target Black voters, from AI-generated DMs to fake election news on TikTok.
It’s getting harder to tell truth from trap.
Kicks & Clickbait Episode 4 drops next week.
November 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Disinformation just got an upgrade.
Kam and Esosa break down how AI and fake accounts are being weaponized to target Black voters, from AI-generated DMs to fake election news on TikTok.
It’s getting harder to tell truth from trap.
Kicks & Clickbait Episode 4 drops next week.
Kam and Esosa break down how AI and fake accounts are being weaponized to target Black voters, from AI-generated DMs to fake election news on TikTok.
It’s getting harder to tell truth from trap.
Kicks & Clickbait Episode 4 drops next week.
🤣 Why did the Black dad bring a ladder to the BBQ?
Kam and Esosa are back on Kicks & Clickbait — cracking jokes, dropping gems, and still finding a way to talk about algorithms and culture like only they can.
Episode 4 Drops NEXT WEEK on YouTube!
Kam and Esosa are back on Kicks & Clickbait — cracking jokes, dropping gems, and still finding a way to talk about algorithms and culture like only they can.
Episode 4 Drops NEXT WEEK on YouTube!
November 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🤣 Why did the Black dad bring a ladder to the BBQ?
Kam and Esosa are back on Kicks & Clickbait — cracking jokes, dropping gems, and still finding a way to talk about algorithms and culture like only they can.
Episode 4 Drops NEXT WEEK on YouTube!
Kam and Esosa are back on Kicks & Clickbait — cracking jokes, dropping gems, and still finding a way to talk about algorithms and culture like only they can.
Episode 4 Drops NEXT WEEK on YouTube!
🧠 Three words. One reality.
ERASURE. They delete our data.
DISTORTION. They twist our truth.
SUPPRESSION. They silence our stories.
The Blackout Report exposes how it all connects — and what comes next if we don’t fight back.
#BlackoutReport
ERASURE. They delete our data.
DISTORTION. They twist our truth.
SUPPRESSION. They silence our stories.
The Blackout Report exposes how it all connects — and what comes next if we don’t fight back.
#BlackoutReport
November 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🧠 Three words. One reality.
ERASURE. They delete our data.
DISTORTION. They twist our truth.
SUPPRESSION. They silence our stories.
The Blackout Report exposes how it all connects — and what comes next if we don’t fight back.
#BlackoutReport
ERASURE. They delete our data.
DISTORTION. They twist our truth.
SUPPRESSION. They silence our stories.
The Blackout Report exposes how it all connects — and what comes next if we don’t fight back.
#BlackoutReport
Distortion means rewriting truth to warp reality.
💰 $9 million cut from sickle cell research.
🤰🏾 $42 million pulled from Black maternal health programs.
📊 6,700+ federal data sets erased
🏛️ Confederate names restored on U.S. bases.
That’s not coincidence. That’s strategy.
💰 $9 million cut from sickle cell research.
🤰🏾 $42 million pulled from Black maternal health programs.
📊 6,700+ federal data sets erased
🏛️ Confederate names restored on U.S. bases.
That’s not coincidence. That’s strategy.
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Distortion means rewriting truth to warp reality.
💰 $9 million cut from sickle cell research.
🤰🏾 $42 million pulled from Black maternal health programs.
📊 6,700+ federal data sets erased
🏛️ Confederate names restored on U.S. bases.
That’s not coincidence. That’s strategy.
💰 $9 million cut from sickle cell research.
🤰🏾 $42 million pulled from Black maternal health programs.
📊 6,700+ federal data sets erased
🏛️ Confederate names restored on U.S. bases.
That’s not coincidence. That’s strategy.
🎙️ Kam is back with another round of Truth or Trap — and Nicole from North Carolina came ready!
This episode is pure vibes and real history. Because knowing the truth about where we come from is how we protect where we’re going.
Where should we go next? 👀
This episode is pure vibes and real history. Because knowing the truth about where we come from is how we protect where we’re going.
Where should we go next? 👀
November 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
🎙️ Kam is back with another round of Truth or Trap — and Nicole from North Carolina came ready!
This episode is pure vibes and real history. Because knowing the truth about where we come from is how we protect where we’re going.
Where should we go next? 👀
This episode is pure vibes and real history. Because knowing the truth about where we come from is how we protect where we’re going.
Where should we go next? 👀
Have you witnessed or documented an erasure, distortion, or suppression event?
✍🏾 Deleted data.
📚 Banned books.
💰 Cut programs.
📉 Policy changes.
Every story matters.
Submit your story at blackoutreport.org and help strengthen The #BlackoutReport.
✍🏾 Deleted data.
📚 Banned books.
💰 Cut programs.
📉 Policy changes.
Every story matters.
Submit your story at blackoutreport.org and help strengthen The #BlackoutReport.
November 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Have you witnessed or documented an erasure, distortion, or suppression event?
✍🏾 Deleted data.
📚 Banned books.
💰 Cut programs.
📉 Policy changes.
Every story matters.
Submit your story at blackoutreport.org and help strengthen The #BlackoutReport.
✍🏾 Deleted data.
📚 Banned books.
💰 Cut programs.
📉 Policy changes.
Every story matters.
Submit your story at blackoutreport.org and help strengthen The #BlackoutReport.
From classrooms to content feeds, our creators are calling it what it is: a blackout on Black truth.
If you care about the future of our kids, our data, and our stories — you need to know what’s at stake.
👉🏾 Watch. Share. Tag a friend who needs to see this.
#BlackoutReport
If you care about the future of our kids, our data, and our stories — you need to know what’s at stake.
👉🏾 Watch. Share. Tag a friend who needs to see this.
#BlackoutReport
November 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
From classrooms to content feeds, our creators are calling it what it is: a blackout on Black truth.
If you care about the future of our kids, our data, and our stories — you need to know what’s at stake.
👉🏾 Watch. Share. Tag a friend who needs to see this.
#BlackoutReport
If you care about the future of our kids, our data, and our stories — you need to know what’s at stake.
👉🏾 Watch. Share. Tag a friend who needs to see this.
#BlackoutReport
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October 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Last week, Onyx Impact released a first-of-its-kind report that provides a comprehensive analysis detailing how Black history and Black futures are under attack. Onyx Impact CEO, @esosaosa.bsky.social lays out the Trump administration's coordinated attack.
The Cost of Silence: The Erasure of Black Progress Threatens Our Democracy
We all pay the price in lost freedom, diminished democracy, and weakened civic trust.
contrarian.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Last week, Onyx Impact released a first-of-its-kind report that provides a comprehensive analysis detailing how Black history and Black futures are under attack. Onyx Impact CEO, @esosaosa.bsky.social lays out the Trump administration's coordinated attack.
On Ep. 3 of Kicks & Clickbait (CBC Edition), Totally Randie keeps it all the way real about fighting back against algorithmic suppression, building tribe over trends, and why community will always outperform code.
Ep 3 Out NOW on YouTube! https://youtu.be/kFVx-gkZSsc
Ep 3 Out NOW on YouTube! https://youtu.be/kFVx-gkZSsc
October 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
On Ep. 3 of Kicks & Clickbait (CBC Edition), Totally Randie keeps it all the way real about fighting back against algorithmic suppression, building tribe over trends, and why community will always outperform code.
Ep 3 Out NOW on YouTube! https://youtu.be/kFVx-gkZSsc
Ep 3 Out NOW on YouTube! https://youtu.be/kFVx-gkZSsc