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.

With inflation raging, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin is being blamed for the child poverty rate more than doubling after he blocked the child tax credit from being renewed.

From Ta'Kiya Young to Alvin Motley to Gregory Bush, the Kroger supermarket chain somehow seems to find itself at the center of violence against Black people. Here are several glaring examples.

The 9/11 terror attacks gave America amnesia about Rudy Giuliani the lying, racist, xenophobic sexist who targeted Black New Yorkers. He's reminded us who he really is over the last 22 years.

The "Vivrant" VP went viral for dancing.

The funeral was held for the pregnant mother, 21, killed by an Ohio cop.

Vice President Kamala Harris is kicking off a college tour at an HBCU to shore up support among young voters amid concerns about Joe Biden's age.

After graphic bodycam video was released, the family of Ta'Kiya Young, a pregnant Black driver killed by Ohio police, wants the cops to be charged with the death of her unborn daughter, too.

The NYPD said it will use drones for the Labor Day weekend as the annual West Indian Day Parade is held in a move that harkens back to post-9/11 surveillance tactics.

There was no apology issued, however, for the incident in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Video footage from a South Dakota Denny's shows two Black men having cops called on them after a white waitress refused to serve them and kicked out of the restaurant: “They’re serving everybody else.”

Calls are growing for more funding to boost security at HBCUs after a white supremacist mass shooting in Jacksonville near Edward Waters University.

The "original" target of the racist, deadly mass shooting in Jacksonville was Edward Waters University before a campus officer thwarted the would-be attack, the HBCU's president said.