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.

The NYPD was on full alert after several of its officers were shot at by one man in a role reversal of the type of violent treatment that Black people have been receiving from police in America.

William Bynum Jr., who was the president of Jackson State University, an HBCU in Mississippi, has resigned after he and more than a dozen other people were arrested for their roles in a prostitution scandal.

#OscarsSoWhite creator April Reign live-tweeted the Oscars with some timely statistics about Black people winning Academy Awards through the decades that the awards show has been around. 

The wealth of Black people in America and the gap between other racial groups has been well documented, but that doesn’t mean Black folks don’t have any money to spend.

Black unemployment has risen yet again for at least the third straight month, according to the January 2020 jobs report.

The details for a public memorial for Kobe Bryant have been set.

Trump took a moment to single out Tim Scott, the, well, single Black Republican in the Senate, to credit him for being such a trusty and tirelessly blind loyalist.

Dr. Austin Lane, who was fired as president of HBCU Texas Southern University, spoke out in defense over an alleged admissions scandal that prompted his termination.

For a racist president, Donald Trump sure did invite a lot of Black folks to be his special guests at the State of the Union address. But a closer look beneath the surface of the president's words revealed his true colors.

Maxine Waters headlines a growing list of Democrats expected to boycott President Donald Trump's 2020 State of the Union address.

Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley's rebuttal to the State of the Union address will make her the third Black woman in two years to respond to in an official political capacity.

Stacey Abrams was asked what Democrats need to do to really catch on with Black voters.