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.

NewsOne compiled an ongoing list of controversial things Dr. Umar Johnson has said about the topic of race through the years.

“The Democrats should not rely on the courts" to win the election, the candidate suggested.

The majority opinion quoted Neil Gorsuch with words that could end up haunting the Trump-nominated U.S. Supreme Court justice.

Priya Chaudhry hasn't had the greatest legal track record in recent history.

The lone Black presidential candidate had time.

Mazi Melesa Pilip is also a pro-Israel Orthodox Jew who served in the IDF and a county legislator who ran on a Republican ticket on Long Island despite her opposite political affiliation.

“You ignored hip-hop for 49 years," the rap icon noted. "At the 50th year, you wanna call us?”

The Dallas civil servant left a legacy of securing overturned wrongful convictions.

Grim statistics show that Black women in particular are among those with the highest rate of death by suicide.

Sheila Jackson Lee has decided to seek reelection just days after she lost a runoff election in the race to be mayor of Houston.

U.S. Rep Sheila Jackson Lee's decisive mayor runoff loss in Houston is prompting urgent questions about the longtime incumbent Texas Congresswoman’s political future.

Known as the Vicksburg Massacre, hundreds of African Americans were lynched for defending a Mississippi county's first Black sheriff on Dec. 7, 1874.