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.

Chadwick Boseman's death reinforces an unfortunate truth: Black people are disproportionately diagnosed with colon cancer in a trend that has heightened implications for Black men, in particular.

Republicans practiced addition by deliberately subtracting Candace Owens from the RNC equation as the Republican National Convention ended by snubbing the reviled, anti-Black conspiracy theorist and not allowing her to speak.

Joe Biden's campaign announced its new series of roundtable discussions for and about Black men in the wake of Jacob Blake's police killing in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

In what may not be the biggest surprise, it was reported that the teenager accused of murdering at least two people at a protest over the police killing of an unarmed Black man appears to be a supporter of President Donald Trump.

Social media reports claim that Kyle Rittenhouse, a teenager who allegedly has an affiliation with local law enforcement, is the gunman who killed at least two people and injured another at a protest over Jacob Blake's shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

At least two people were killed after a "young White man" was shown on video shooting protesters at a demonstration against the police shooting of an unarmed Black man just days earlier in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

"Uncle Tom" was one of the top trending topics on Twitter following the opening night of the Republican National Convention that featured several Black men making the case for Donald Trump to be re-elected.

Joe Biden accepted the Democratic nomination to be president during the final night of the Democratic National Convention and asked voters to fully grasp the consequences of re-electing Donald Trump.

Kamala Harris night accepted in glorious fashion the Democratic nomination to become the first Black woman to run for vice president on a major party's ticket.

President Obama must have hit one of Trump's nerves with his Democratic National Convention speech. Trump fired off tweets in all-caps and filled with conspiracy theories.

Kamala Harris paid a moving tribute to Black women while accepting her nomination to be Democrats' candidate for vice president on the third night of the Democratic National Convention.

William Marcus Wilson claims he shot in self-defense at a truck trying to run him off the road while yelling racial slurs at him.