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.

Shane Belleville was charged with racist hate crimes for allegedly calling a group of children racist slurs while trying to run them over with his pickup truck in Holbrook, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston.

Alleah Taylor, the ex-girlfriend of former NFL player Chad Wheeler who claims he physically abused her, opened up about her allegations of brutal domestic violence in an interview on the "Tamron Hall" show.

Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Executive Director Patrisse Cullors was interviewed on the Black News Channel about the controversy around her organization, her career, the right-wing media and much more.

Jonathan Mattingly, one of the Louisville police officers involved in Breonna Taylor's killing, may need to find a new way to capitalize on her death after Simon & Schuster refused to distribute the disgraced cop's planned book.

A white driver attacked a Minnesota cop with his car and a hammer and lived to tell about it four days after Daunte Wright, who is Black, was gunned down during a traffic stop for having too many air fresheners in his car.

Cariol Horne, a Black former police officer in Buffalo, New York, who was fired more than 14 years ago after she tried to stop a fellow cop from choking a handcuffed Black man, has had her termination annulled.

DMX has reportedly been hospitalized following a drug overdose and heart attack at his home in suburban New York City. TMZ reported the rapper was in "grave condition."

As if the allegations about a Trump-sympathizing Republican Congressman from Florida about trafficking at least one underage girl weren't bad enough, a new report says he also used drugs and paid women for sex.

The firing of seven detention officers involved in the in-custody death of Marvin Scott III is seen as "a good first step," but they were neither charged nor arrested for their roles at the Collin County jail in McKinney, Texas.

White supremacist Lee Mouat pleaded guilty to beating Devin Freelon Jr., a Black 18-year-old, in his mouth with a bicycle lock stemming from a racist encounter at a Michigan beach last June.

After facing threats of a boycott, Delta Air Lines' CEO Ed Bastain reversed his praise of Georgia's controversial new law restricting voting access expected to disproportionately affect Black and brown communities.

The eyewitness testimony of Donald Williams was at once confident, emotional and unflappable as Derek Chauvin's defense lawyer tried in vain to discredit him and get under his skin.