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.

A mass shooting at the Baltimore HBCU came amid renewed calls for more government funding to help protect the nation's historically Black colleges and universities from such violence.

Decades after founding Radio One, Cathy Hughes has led the company now named Urban One to reach more than 80% of Black U.S. households.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley is looking forward "to having two incredible Black women serve consecutively."

EMILY's List President Laphonza Butler is set to be the nation's third-ever Black woman U.S. Senator after California Gov. Gavin Newsome selected her to fill Dianne Feinstein's seat.

George Floyd's uncle Selwyn Jones said Denny's refusing to serve Black men in South Dakota was “a disgrace” that underscores the lack of progress being made along racial lines in America.

Despite a reported racial resentment of the American military, Army soldier Travis King was "very happy" to return to the U.S. after defecting to North Korea, officials said.

Tim Scott said during the second GOP presidential debate that slavery wasn't as "hard to survive" for Black families as LBJ's "Great Society" welfare program.

Republicans are apparently more concerned with Tim Scott's marital status than the issues.

Travis King has been "expelled" from North Korea more than two months after the U.S. soldier defected from South Korea, but there are still more questions than answers.

A 911 call from Office Depot falsely accusing a young Black man of stealing contradicts its own denials of racial profiling, a lawyer said: "All they saw was a young Black man in a hoodie.”

Trump reportedly buying a gun while under felony indictment would mean his re-arrest.