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.

William Marcus Wilson should be held to the same legal standards as white defendants who cite Georgia's Stand Your Ground laws, defense attorneys said in the case of a Black driver killing a white teen in a truck chasing him.

A Black man almost got lynched in Indiana on the Fourth of July, according to a social media post he wrote that was accompanied by video footage of the encounter with a group of white men at Lake Monroe near Bloomington.

Therese Patricia Okoumou just upped the ante for silent protests for social justice.

A pair of online petitions are demanding an investigation into the death of 18-year-old Elijah Weatherspoon, whose family says he went boating last week in South Carolina with his white friends only to never return home.

Bubba Wallace Jr. and his team discovered a noose in their garage before a NASCAR race in Alabama and two weeks after the league's top African American driver forced the removal of the Confederate Flag.

The Atlanta police killing of Rayshard Brooks is the latest instance in a disturbing series of cops openly disrespecting their victims in the moments after using lethal force in situations that didn't call for it.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has denied claims that Alexis Johnson and Michael Santiago were kept from covering the city's George Floyd protests because they are Black.

Philonise George was appearing before the House Judiciary Committee less than 12 hours after his brother, George, was buried following a moving funeral in Houston.

The reports of voter suppression that plagued Georgia's primary election have disastrous implications for the general election in November.

House Democrats unveiled their sweeping new landmark legislation aimed at reforming the ways in which police departments enforce the nation's laws.

The good news of the jobless rate dropping did not extend to Black workers as new data shows their unemployment levels ticked upward last month. 

If white people truly do want to take more than some baby steps toward ending their race-based privileges, voting against Trump in 2020 is a better start than some symbolic anti-white privilege ceremony.