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.

Newsweek has come under fire for publishing an op-ed questioning whether Kamala Harris is eligible to serve as the vice president of the United States based on the circumstances surrounding her birth in California.

Stacey Abrams has been called a rising star in the Democratic Party, but her name was not included on the first list of speakers planned for the Democratic National Convention.

Myriad groups and prominent individuals were reacting favorably to Biden's historical decision to pick Harris as his running mate.

Biden made Black history -- and American history -- by making Harris the first African American woman to be nominated for the prestigious political post.

Calls for Joe Biden to select a Black woman to be his vice-presidential running mate were being amplified as the presumptive Democratic nominee's self-imposed deadline to make his announcement was rapidly approaching.

The Chicago mayor delivered a fiery diatribe against people seen on video looting and called on Kim Foxx to hold those arrested accountable despite a report that the city's chief prosecutor has been dropping felony cases.

Joe Biden's presidential campaign has begun to roll out its a new massive advertising blitz worth more than a quarter of a billion dollars, with the first commercial targeting Black voters. Watch it here.

A graphic video showing a 41-year-old Black prisoner's inhumane treatment by corrections officers before dying in-custody has been leaked on social media to show how the inmate was "murdered."

The poll comes amid nationwide protests against racism and indications that more white people care about racial injustice than seemingly ever before.

A couple of legal experts interviewed by the Associated Press suggested we should probably not hold our breaths waiting for Breonna Taylor's killers to be arrested and charged for what social justice advocates have called murder.

The N-word is at the center of a budding scandal after the head football coach at Texas Christian University - a white man - used the racist epithet (hard R and all) while confronting a Black player during a recent practice session.

A suspected white supremacist who is also the mayor of a Virginia town was urged to quit over his alleged racist Facebook post comparing Biden's vice president hopefuls to "Aunt Jemima."