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.

Calls have begun to grow for a full investigation into the recent spate of bomb threats made against HBCUs as nearly two dozen Black colleges have been targeted in recent weeks.

The U.S. Department of Justice is defending its decision to offer a plea deal to the convicted murderers of Ahmaud Arbery, but an attorney representing the deceased jogger's family is pushing back on the feds' narrative.

Herschel Walker, the football legend-turned upstart U.S. Senate MAGA candidate in Georgia, showed his ignorance about how the Senate works when he fumbled a question about the infrastructure bill that was asked by a right-wing conservative news outlet.

Jackson State University's star quarterback Shedeur Sanders has signed a historic - and likely lucrative - "NIL" partnership with Gatorade, a first for an HBCU, or any other university, that allows him to profit from his name, image and likeness.

The upcoming criminal trial for Brett Hankison, a former Louisville police detective involved in Breonna Taylor's killing - but not charged for her killing Breonna Taylor -- will be open to the press, a Kentucky judge ruled Thursday, delivering him a legal setback.

Beyond being a Black woman, civil rights groups say, Biden's nominee needs to value racial equity and not be influenced by politics in order to help bring balance to the Supreme Court.

Scholar and revolutionary activist Angela Davis documented her life as well as her views about women, race, class and politics on the pages of more than 10 books that she has authored. These quotes from a sample of those books have proven to be timeless.

The Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose Spaulding is running for Illinois' 1st Congressional District in a seat set to be made vacant by longtime U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush's upcoming retirement. The pastor, educator and freedom fighter tells NewsOne more about her political platform.

Police in Luray, Virginia quickly forgave and didn't arrest Amelia King, an anti-mask parent shown on video at a Page County School Board meeting threatening to bring "loaded" guns to her kids' school in protest of the mask mandate she opposes.

Houston County Sheriff's Deputy Paul Urhahn was allowed to resign after not being fired immediately for the now-former Georgia cop cruelly referring to Ahmaud Arbery's tragic killing as "the death penalty."

One of the least mentioned aspects of the death of André Leon Talley has been the role that race played during his life. But he was very vocal about the intersection of racism and the fashion world, as these quotes show.

Civil rights leaders expressed disappointment at the U.S. Senate's failure to advance key voting rights legislation and change the filibuster rule, but they were also resolute in their will to keep fighting for equal and fair elections in a crucial election year.