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.

David Paterson, New York's first-ever Black governor, recently shared an anecdote about Andrew Cuomo backstabbing him that lends credence to mounting questions about the disgraced governor's character.

Photos and video footage showed dozens of white people rioting at a rally in Los Angeles protesting against COVID-19 vaccine mandates in a violent demonstration that the LAPD is being accused of allowing the Proud Boys to instigate.

The shooting death of Alvin Motley, an unarmed Black man killed by security guard at a gas station in Memphis, is the latest victim in an apparently growing trend of deadly disputes over loud music.

GoFundMe has frozen nearly $200,000 raised online by Dasha Kelly, a Black woman, over suspicions she misrepresented herself as the biological mother of the three young children she lives with.

In a very on-brand move, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is trying to overturn the governor's mandate for children to wear masks in schools as the COVID-19 delta variant ravishes the state.

Journalist and activist Shaun King on Wednesday announced his plans to start a new fashion company and offered his more than 1 million Instagram followers the chance to buy exclusive merchandise when it officially launches. Yes, really.

As music festivals, concerts and other large gatherings planned for the fall begin to get canceled over concerns of the COVID-19 delta variant spreading, the infamous FreakNik event is still expected to go on as scheduled in Atlanta.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's pending resignation over damning sexual harassment allegations has paved the way for State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins to be New York's first Black woman acting lieutenant governor.

In a major shift in American demographics, newly released Census data confirmed that the number of white people in the U.S. fell for the first time in decades.

The suspicion that Herschel Walker's wife illegally voted in Georgia while she was a Texas resident draws attention to Crystal Mason being sentenced to five years in prison for her own controversial vote in 2016.

The right-wing trolls crying hypocrisy about recent large "maskless" gatherings attended by prominent Democrats have been silent about how the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota is a proven COVID-19 superspreader.

News sources are reporting that the baseball fan at a Colorado Rockies game accused of repeatedly yelling the N-word to a Black player was instead actually shouting out the name of the team mascot.