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.

Calls have grown louder for Joe Biden to make sure he selects a Black as his vice-presidential running mate, something he has repeatedly failed to commit to.

Barbara Fedida, who served as the business affairs chief for ABC News, was fired for a series of "unacceptable racially insensitive comments" she made to several Black women co-workers who are on-air talents.

Andrew Gillum made a surprise return to public life on Monday by releasing a video testimonial to provide what he called a "personal update" on his life since he entered rehab months ago.

The "Strike for Black Lives" encourages participants to stop working at noon in all time zones for nearly nine minutes -- the same time it took a Minneapolis cop to kill George Floyd.

Kanye West held his first campaign rally for his apparent presidential bid and displayed an emotional meltdown while discussing abortion, Harriet Tubman, slaves and more. Fans said it was a cry for mental help.

Georgia Rep. John Lewis, the iconic civil rights pioneer who went on to become one of the most powerful men in Congress, has died. He was 80 years old.

William Bryan, the man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery's modern-day lynching, was denied bail as he and the other two suspected white supremacists involved in the vigilante Georgia shooting all pleaded not guilty to murder.

Jamaal Bowman's historic primary victory over a longtime New York Congressman all but guarantees that there will be another Black U.S. representative on Capitol Hill next year.

The Rev. C.T. Vivian, a civil rights leader whose close association with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. helped fuel efforts at achieving racial equality, has died at the age of 95.

Responding to the White House press secretary's disrespectful words about crime and leadership in the Windy City, the mayor of Chicago had a few words to spare. 

Mary Trump told Rachel Maddow that her uncle, President Donald Trump, along with the rest of her family, has routinely used the N-word and anti-Semitic slurs.

Lest we forget that it wasn't too long ago when Candace Owens was heaping her own praise on Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.