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.

Video posted to social media showed that New York City's so-called finest still have much to do to live up to their nickname as they continue criminalizing nonviolent offenders amid a global pandemic.

The language used by Trump's campaign to disavow Black Americans to Re-Elect the President was considerably stronger that his reluctant denouncement of David Duke, Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazis.

The key to staving off the coronavirus is to be proactive, according to a viral video touting an "African method" of self-treatment. Experts beg to differ.

Young Black voters are expected to play a major role in the 2020 election. But can Joe Biden win their support away from Bernie Sanders? The answer is both complicated and simple.

There still needs to be more data released about the coronavirus' victims by race, but the existing data paints a grim picture in the places where Black people are disproportionately contracting COVID-19.

NBA players in professional sports' highest-paid league may be feeling much more of the economic effects from the coronavirus pandemic than conventional wisdom would suggest.

Rapper Waka Flocka apparently wanted to make sure that everybody knew he was doubling down on his false claim that he made about "minorities" and the coronavirus pandemic.

The death of Black Enterprise founder Earl G. Graves Sr. came after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.

The decision to hold in-person voting for Wisconsin's primary could exacerbate the state's alarming disproportionate rate at which Black people have contracted the coronavirus.

America has become the latest country to be accused of stealing the medical machines designed to keep patients breathing that have become an essential fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

Black people aren't just contracting the coronavirus at a disproportionately faster rate than other racial groups. They're dying more too. Here's why.

A video allegedly shows a nursing home administrator taking boxes of personal protective equipment away from a facility where an employee claimed patients have the coronavirus.