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.

Cornel West said Harvard University was "open to a tenure review" only after there was negative publicity surrounding its decision to refuse tenure to the famous Black professor of philosophy.

Activists demanded that Commonwealth Attorney Tom Wine prosecute the police officers involved in Breonna Taylor's death now that his self-proclaimed conflict of interest that prompted his recusal last year no longer exists.

A series of photos following the bombshell interview with Meghan Markle suggests the Royal Family is scrambling to be seen in public with Black people in an age-old PR stunt used by closeted white supremacists to deny they're racist.

Stacey Dash is following the classic -- and pitifully stale -- blueprint for redemption in the Black community by begging for forgiveness.

Micheal Regan, Joe Biden's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, is uniquely qualified to tackle environmental racism and justice from Day 1.

At least one person was reportedly killed in Johannesburg as police responded with deadly force during ongoing protests against mounting student debt in South Africa.

The prosecution and defense attorneys debated the so-called "spark of life" doctrine ahead of anticipated references to George Floyd's prior drug use during Derek Chauvin's murder trial. Here's what that means.

The topic of Black Lives Matter played a role in selecting the first juror in the murder trial Derek Chauvin, of a former police officer accused of killing George Floyd.

If anyone was thought there would be some type of racial reckoning to suddenly come over the British tabloid press following Oprah Winfrey's bombshell interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, think again.

John Schnatter, who was fired for using the N-word on a conference call, recently said that it's taken him nearly two years to get the racist epithet out of his vocabulary. He didn't say if he was successful or not, though.

Noted and academic Cornel West has made good on his threat to leave Harvard University after he publicly called out the renowned Ivy League school for failing to give him tenure.

Meghan Markle's disclosure that the Royal Family was concerned about how "dark" her baby would be is sad, unfortunate, disgusting and, yes, very racist. But Royal racism is nothing new.