Bruce C.T. Wright

Bruce C.T. WrightManaging Editor

Bruce is based in New York City and mainly covers politics, culture, race and criminal justice. He previously worked at the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Boston Globe’s Boston.com, where he was a part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that covered the Boston Marathon bombing and manhunt. Follow him @ BCTW on social media.

Ben Jealous and Stacey Abrams conversation
Stacey Abrams' Genius Compared To Game Of Spades

Ben Jealous compared Stacey Abrams' political genius to a game of spades in an analogy that makes perfect sense once…

 1 day ago
02.27.21
US-POLITICS-BIDEN
Lloyd Austin Recommended Airstrike In Syria

Recently confirmed Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said he recommended the airstrike in Syria that targeted a militia supported by…

 2 days ago
02.26.21
FEMA Administrator Peter Gaynor Testifies Before The House Homeland Security Committee
Al Green Blasts Republicans Voting Against 'Equality'

Texas Rep. Al Green made it clear how he felt about his Republican colleagues who had already announced their intentions…

 3 days ago
02.26.21
Haroun Wakil, Atlanta activist
RIP Haroun Wakil: Atlanta Mourns Activist's Death

Haroun Wakil, an influential activist and community organizer in Atlanta has died, prompting an outpouring of emotion from the many…

 3 days ago
02.25.21
Tishaura Jones, St. Louis mayoral candidate
Ayanna Pressley Endorses Tishaura Jones For STL Mayor

Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley has endorsed Tishaura Jones for St. Louis mayor just days ahead of the primary election. It…

 3 days ago
02.25.21
Re-opening Continues Across Densely Populated New York And New Jersey Areas
Man Who Targeted Light-Skinned Women Gets Hate Charges

A Black man accused of attacking women on the subway in New York City was indicted for hate crimes because…

 3 days ago
02.25.21
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene Holds Capitol Hill News Conference
Marjorie Taylor Greene Slammed For Transphobia

Donald Trump may be gone from Washington, but the hateful, conspiracy theory-fueled ideologies that he championed are still very much…

 3 days ago
02.25.21
Harlem restaurant fake movie poster
'New Soul' Harlem Restaurant Poster Sparks Outrage, Briefly

Some people in Harlem -- a community that's been all but synonymous with Black people -- were caught off-guard when…

 3 days ago
02.25.21
News - George Floyd Protest Juneteenth - New York City
Demanding Police Accountability

Civil rights and social justice leaders convened virtually to demand Congress pass the George Floyd Justice In Policing Act to…

 4 days ago
02.24.21
President Trump Gives State Of The Union Address
Florida County Snubs Rush Limbaugh, Won't Lower Flag

Florida's Palm Beach County has snubbed both Rush Limbaugh and Gov. Ron DeSantis by deciding against lowering flags to honor the…

 4 days ago
02.24.21
Tiger Woods, car crash, Los Angeles, California
Tiger Woods 'Lucky To Be Alive' After Crash

Golfing superstar Tiger Woods was hospitalized after he crashed his car in California. Here's everything we know.

 5 days ago
02.24.21
Shirley Sherrod Meets With Vilsack About New Job With USDA
Vilsack Confirmed For USDA, To Black Leaders' Chagrin

Former USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack's controversial firing of Shirley Sherrod in 2010 should preclude him from leading the agriculture agency…

 5 days ago
02.23.21
Senate Homeland Security Committee Hearing On Jan. 6 Attack On Capitol
Capitol Police Capt. Carneysha Mendoza Recalls Insurrection

Capitol Police Capt. Carneysha Mendoza's harrowing testimony recalling the horrors she experienced during the insurrection and attempted coup at the…

 5 days ago
02.23.21
AU Peace and Security Council Meeting
Linda Thomas-Greenfield Confirmed As UN Ambassador

The Senate confirmed Linda Thomas-Greenfield to serve as President Joe Biden's ambassador to the United Nations on Tuesday in a…

 5 days ago
02.23.21
US-POLITICS-CAPITOL-HEARING
Read Capitol Police Capt. Carneysha Mendoza's Senate Testimony

Capitol Police Capt. Carneysha Mendoza was among the members of law enforcement testifying before the Senate about the response to…

 5 days ago
02.23.21
Bloomberg Best Of The Year 2020
Irony: Trump-Worshiping CPAC Disinvites Anti-Semitic Speaker

The irony: CPAC, which worships Donald Trump and his racism, announced that it has disinvited Young Pharoah, a Black speaker,…

 6 days ago
02.22.21
Rodney Reese
Teen Arrested For Walking While Black In Snow

Rodney Reese, who was arrested in Plano, Texas, for walking in a street during a snowstorm, has spoken out after…

 6 days ago
02.22.21
Coca-Cola European Partners workers on warning strike
Coca-Cola Under Fire For 'Be Less White' Training

Critics have complained that Coca-Cola is "forcing" its workers to "be less white" with a training program about confronting racism…

 6 days ago
02.22.21
Meet the Press - Season 71
Biden’s DOJ Wants Omarosa To Pay $61.5K Immediately

The current DOJ is still trying to make Omarosa Manigault Newman pay tens of thousands of dollars that Trump's administration…

 7 days ago
02.22.21
2018 W.E.B. Du Bois Medal Ceremony
Harvard Denying Cornel West Tenure Is 'Disrespectful'

Noted academic and activist Cornel West has threatened to leave Harvard University in part because he said the renowned institution…

 1 week ago
02.19.21
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