DC Sniper’s Ex-Wife Dr. Mildred Muhammad Speaks Out on Abuse: I Was a Real Target

WASHINGTON — More than two decades after the Washington, D.C., area was terrorized by a series of random sniper shootings, the ex-wife of convicted killer John Allen Muhammad says the violence was never random at all — it was personal.

10 Predictive Signs a Recession Will Hit America Before 2026

Wall Street and Main Street are sending multiple, concurrent warnings that increase the likelihood of a U.S. recession before 2026.

Accelerating corporate layoffs and automation-driven payroll cuts, rising consumer-credit distress and repossessions, recent contagious bankruptcies and bank write-offs, cooling corporate profits and capex, weakening labor-market breadth, deteriorating financial conditions, surging safe‑haven flows such as gold, and offbeat indicators (cardboard-box orders, discretionary Halloween sales, underwear replacement patterns, lipstick demand) together raise the odds that localized stress could cascade into a national downturn.

22 Billionaires Attempt to to Stop Mamdani Momentum in NYC Mayoral Race; Desperate Adams and Cuomo Turn to Anti‑Muslim Fear and Bigotry Down Stretch

As Zohran Mamdani heads into the final stretch of New York City’s mayoral contest, a well‑funded campaign of fear and division has coalesced around Andrew Cuomo and a network of ultrawealthy donors. Reporting from Forbes and Yahoo shows at least two dozen billionaires or billionaire families have funneled more than $22 million into efforts to block Mamdani, making the race not just a contest of ideas but a showdown over who controls the city’s political narrative.

MacKenzie Scott Breaks Giving Records at HBCUs — $100M in Transformative Gifts to Alabama State and Morgan State

Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has again made history with two major, unrestricted gifts to HBCUs this month, delivering a combined $101 million that marks among the largest single-donor investments in historically Black colleges and universities in recent years. Alabama State University announced a $38 million donation — the largest in its 156-year history — while Morgan State University in Baltimore received $63 million, bringing Scott’s total giving to Morgan to $103 million overall.

If You Love The Moguldom Newsletter, You Will Love SCIENCE vs Spook: BPSC 101: 50 Lessons in Black American Politics

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If Trump’s Narco‑Terrorism Claims Target Fentanyl, “Death Strikes” Should Focus on China and Mexico — Not Venezuela

The Trump administration’s recent missile strikes against small boats off the Venezuelan coast, justified as part of an “armed conflict” against narcotics traffickers, are drawing fierce criticism in Washington — not only for their legality, but for their logic. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has condemned the operations as “extrajudicial killings,” warning that the President has neither congressional authorization nor credible evidence to justify such lethal force.

“A briefing is not enough to overcome the Constitution,” Paul said. “We’ve had no evidence presented. No names, no proof, no indication that these people were armed or even traffickers.”

Remembering the 1972 National Black Political Convention: 15 Things to Know

Fifty years later, the 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana, still stands as one of the most ambitious experiments in collective Black politics in U.S. history. It was a moment when thousands gathered under the banner “Unity Without Uniformity,” attempting to define what independent Black political power might look like in a country emerging from the Civil Rights and Black Power eras.

Remembering Ebony Magazine Journalist Michele Burgen: Reportedly Murdered By Black Mafia In Philly

Some people have never heard the name Michele Burgen, but for others it is one that lives in infamy. The popular journalist – who was one of the youngest editors in Ebony’s history at the time – was murdered in 1980 in New York when she was only 26 years old. While the official reason for her killing remains an unsolved mystery, the streets have long blamed the Philly Black Mafia, which is affiliated with the Nation of Islam, for Burgen’s death.

Fact Check: Is There a Black Secret Society Of Elites Called The Boulé?

If you’ve never heard of the Boulé, that’s probably because it’s by design. Officially known as Sigma Pi Phi, the Boulé was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1904 by Dr. Henry McKee Minton and five of his colleagues. Among the group were doctors, dentists and a pharmacist. It is the nation’s first Black Greek organization.

Fact Check: The ‘Dollar Only Stays In Black Community 6 Hours’ Is Urban Myth

The claim that a dollar circulates within the Black community for only six hours has been widely circulated, but is it actually true? This myth has been debunked by TruthBeTold.news, an initiative out of Howard University’s Department of Media, Journalism, and Film in the School of Communications, which aims to fact-check claims about the Black American community.