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.

Despite the gaudy jobless numbers in November's jobs report, an apparent lack of so-called “good jobs” has resulted in a surge of hiring to fill low-wage positions, which negatively affects the Black unemployment rate.

Revising history (read: lying) is nothing new for presidential candidates, but Michael Bloomberg may have reached a new low when he lied about criticism of his racist "stop and frisk" police policy.

Now is the time for high school seniors around the country to figure out what comes next in their young lives. For many of them, that next step will be college.

One of the nation’s iconic men’s college basketball programs suffered its most devastating defeat of the season without even playing a game.

Kamala Harris, the senator from California, will reportedly withdraw her candidacy seeming the Democratic nomination to be president.

Polling shows that Cory Booker and Kamala Harris, the only two viable Black candidates running for president, have very low support among Black voters. Why?

No, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not dead. But a tweet purportedly posted by Fox News said otherwise as she was hospitalized before the death hoax went viral.

Aaron Cody Smith, a white police officer who killed Greg Gunn, an unarmed Black man he racially profiled, was found guilty of manslaughter.

The Chagos Islands, Africa's last remaining British colony, is still under control of the United Kingdom despite orders from the United Nations for Britain to recognize its sovereignty.

Democrat’s optimism over the impeachment inquiry public hearings got a bit of a reality check when Texas Rep. Will Hurd, the only Black Republican in the House, signaled his support for Trump.

With such a heavy emphasis on Black voters, the silence from Julián Castro’s absence on the stage could be deafening when it comes time for candidates to debate issues important to African Americans.

President Barack Obama had more than a few sage words of guidance for anybody listening when he sat down with Democratic All-Star Stacey Abrams at an event in Washington, D.C.