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.

When Hannah Payne’s delayed murder trial in the road-rage killing of 62-year-old Black driver Kenneth Herring finally begins early next year, Black women will help decide her fate, including Clayton County Superior Court Judge Shana Rooks Malone.

Former President Barack Obama may have finally hinted at who he actually prefers to face off against Donald Trump. Spoiler alert: It sounded like it may not be his two-time vice president, Joe Biden, the race's front-runner.

Voters in Georgia and Wisconsin need to act fast if they want to participate in the 2020 election, according to recent rulings that threaten to remove more than a half-million people from voter rolls.

To anyone who’s been paying attention to the resurgence of white supremacy in the military, the white power sign by cadets and a midshipman at the Army-Navy football game shouldn't be a surprise.

A drunken NYPD officer in Tennessee got a slap on the wrist after he broke into a Black woman’s home, called her and her sons the N-word and threatened to hurt them.

The grisly stabbing killing of Tessa Majors, a Barnard College freshman, bears a handful of the damning hallmarks of the case of the Central Park Five from 30 years earlier.

The Texas police officer who killed Michael Dean last week by shooting him in the head was sued for excessive force when he was accused of burning a teenager alive.

There has been a chorus of voices from Black Jews to distance themselves from the Black Hebrew Israelites suspected in the anti-Semitic Jersey City shooting that left six people dead.

The police officer who killed Michael Dean, a young Black man, by shooting him in the head was still on the payroll more than a week after the latest instance of homicidal violence by law enforcement in Texas.

The shooters in the deadly Jersey City shootout on Tuesday have been identified as David Anderson and Francine Graham, suspected Black Hebrew Israelites.

The news that President Donald Trump intended to sign an executive order to, as CNN put it, "interpret Judaism as a nationality and not just a religion," was seemingly out of nowhere.