About Bruce C.T. Wright

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.

Payton Gendron will get a life sentence for a racist mass shooting in Buffalo, but the death penalty is still very much a real possibility thanks to his federal hate crime charges.

Michael C. Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker were tortured over false and racist claims, lawyers say.

The Michigan State University gunman who killed multiple people in separate campus shootings is named Anthony McCrae, a 43-year-old Black man, police say. His motive is not clear.

Arkansas news outlet KARK 4 apologized for tweeting disrespectfully about "the so-called Black National Anthem" and even had the nerve to misspell its name, "Lift Every Voice and Sing."

Actress Keke Palmer recently discussed how she celebrates Black History Month and why she feels "pretty invincible as a Black woman."

Kevin Seefried used a Confederate flag to attack a Black police officer on Jan. 6, 2021.

A new report suggests reckless driving may not be the true motivation for Memphis police officers to initiate a traffic stop on Tyre Nichols.

Dee Barnes, who was physically abused by Dr. Dre decades ago, is speaking out after the music producer won a Grammy Award created in his name: "You might as well call it the 'Ike Turner Award.'"

The revelation that a Memphis cop texted a "female acquaintance" with a graphic photo of Tyre Nichols has revived a debunked "rumor" that the beating was personal.

Former Memphis police officer Demetrius Haley "admitted" to taking a photo of Tyre Nichols after beating him and then texting it to others, according to an official police statement.