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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/
100,000 of you. One mission.
Thank you for showing up, tapping in, and refusing to let misinformation have the last word. 🖤
Level Up. Lock In. Move Different.
More tools, more Truth or Trap, and more ways to protect Black futures are on the way.
Thank you for showing up, tapping in, and refusing to let misinformation have the last word. 🖤
Level Up. Lock In. Move Different.
More tools, more Truth or Trap, and more ways to protect Black futures are on the way.
December 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
100,000 of you. One mission.
Thank you for showing up, tapping in, and refusing to let misinformation have the last word. 🖤
Level Up. Lock In. Move Different.
More tools, more Truth or Trap, and more ways to protect Black futures are on the way.
Thank you for showing up, tapping in, and refusing to let misinformation have the last word. 🖤
Level Up. Lock In. Move Different.
More tools, more Truth or Trap, and more ways to protect Black futures are on the way.
ICYMI: Kam took Truth or Trap to the streets to see who really knows their Black history.
Did the Trump administration actually try to scrub Jackie Robinson from federal sites? And what role did Medgar Evers play that most textbooks skip right over?
Did the Trump administration actually try to scrub Jackie Robinson from federal sites? And what role did Medgar Evers play that most textbooks skip right over?
December 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
ICYMI: Kam took Truth or Trap to the streets to see who really knows their Black history.
Did the Trump administration actually try to scrub Jackie Robinson from federal sites? And what role did Medgar Evers play that most textbooks skip right over?
Did the Trump administration actually try to scrub Jackie Robinson from federal sites? And what role did Medgar Evers play that most textbooks skip right over?
When the data is this loud, there’s no room for spin.
Cuts to Black institutions? Deleted datasets? Banned books? That’s not a coincidence — that’s a coordinated rollback.
The Blackout Report laid out the receipts. Axios amplified it. Kam is breaking it all the way down.
Cuts to Black institutions? Deleted datasets? Banned books? That’s not a coincidence — that’s a coordinated rollback.
The Blackout Report laid out the receipts. Axios amplified it. Kam is breaking it all the way down.
December 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
When the data is this loud, there’s no room for spin.
Cuts to Black institutions? Deleted datasets? Banned books? That’s not a coincidence — that’s a coordinated rollback.
The Blackout Report laid out the receipts. Axios amplified it. Kam is breaking it all the way down.
Cuts to Black institutions? Deleted datasets? Banned books? That’s not a coincidence — that’s a coordinated rollback.
The Blackout Report laid out the receipts. Axios amplified it. Kam is breaking it all the way down.
👀 ICYMI: TRUTH OR TRAP with Don Lemon?
Our very own Kam Middlebrooks connected with Don Lemon for a rapid-fire drop of history, culture, and real talk — from HBCUs shaping STEM to the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Our very own Kam Middlebrooks connected with Don Lemon for a rapid-fire drop of history, culture, and real talk — from HBCUs shaping STEM to the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott.
December 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
👀 ICYMI: TRUTH OR TRAP with Don Lemon?
Our very own Kam Middlebrooks connected with Don Lemon for a rapid-fire drop of history, culture, and real talk — from HBCUs shaping STEM to the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Our very own Kam Middlebrooks connected with Don Lemon for a rapid-fire drop of history, culture, and real talk — from HBCUs shaping STEM to the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott.
The Blackout Report has surfaced more than 15,700 coordinated hits on Black progress including deleted data, banned books, gutted research, and policy choices designed to choke opportunity at the root.
We've documented every move, every pattern, every attempt to dim our future.
We've documented every move, every pattern, every attempt to dim our future.
December 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
The Blackout Report has surfaced more than 15,700 coordinated hits on Black progress including deleted data, banned books, gutted research, and policy choices designed to choke opportunity at the root.
We've documented every move, every pattern, every attempt to dim our future.
We've documented every move, every pattern, every attempt to dim our future.
This Wednesday Dec 10th! Join us for the ONE DAY ONLY annual Black Policy Lab, where future-building is for all of us!
Registration is FREE but you must sign up bit.ly/BlackPolicyLab2025.
#BlackIsHumanToo #BPL2025
Registration is FREE but you must sign up bit.ly/BlackPolicyLab2025.
#BlackIsHumanToo #BPL2025
December 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This Wednesday Dec 10th! Join us for the ONE DAY ONLY annual Black Policy Lab, where future-building is for all of us!
Registration is FREE but you must sign up bit.ly/BlackPolicyLab2025.
#BlackIsHumanToo #BPL2025
Registration is FREE but you must sign up bit.ly/BlackPolicyLab2025.
#BlackIsHumanToo #BPL2025
Black excellence isn’t a trend. It’s a force.
And this year’s The Root 100 made that plain. We were honored to sponsor the celebration and to stand with The Root, a platform that continues to uplift our stories and tell the truth with no filter.
We’re locked in for the long haul.
And this year’s The Root 100 made that plain. We were honored to sponsor the celebration and to stand with The Root, a platform that continues to uplift our stories and tell the truth with no filter.
We’re locked in for the long haul.
December 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Black excellence isn’t a trend. It’s a force.
And this year’s The Root 100 made that plain. We were honored to sponsor the celebration and to stand with The Root, a platform that continues to uplift our stories and tell the truth with no filter.
We’re locked in for the long haul.
And this year’s The Root 100 made that plain. We were honored to sponsor the celebration and to stand with The Root, a platform that continues to uplift our stories and tell the truth with no filter.
We’re locked in for the long haul.
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