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 way Black people are policed in America received a fresh batch of scrutiny after a viral video showed a BART transit cop in San Francisco detaining a Black man for eating a sandwich while waiting for a train on his way to work.

Fulton County police charged Jordyn Jones and her boyfriend, Barron Brantley, with the murder of Clark Atlanta University student Alexis Crawford.

From the location to the audience to the moderator, Elizabeth Warren's event at North Carolina A&T was dripping in Blackness. Why couldn't she give a better answer to a hypothetical question about her hypothetical cabinet?

Ibrahim Yazeed, the prime suspect in an alleged kidnapping of a young woman in Alabama, appeared to try to play the role of a victim when he was arrested as Aniah Blanchard remained missing.

A$AP Rocky has reportedly scheduled to perform a live show in Sweden, the same country where he was arrested and detained for weeks before going on trial for an alleged assault in the summer.

There was a steady stream of reports about various forms of voter suppression flowing across the country on this year’s Election Day despite advocates’ best efforts to prevent it.

Dermot Shea has been appointed to become the next NYPD commissioner despite his past of being accused of racial profiling in a major rape case.

Maxine Waters was deep in her bag Thursday morning ahead of the House’ procedural vote on the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry against the president.

With racial tensions at a fever pitch in America, political Halloween costumes have been all the rage, especially ones for White privilege.

Van Lathan’s recent interview with Jemele Hill on her “Unbothered” podcast cast him in a light that hadn’t been seen following his highly publicized firing from TMZ.

Police were searching for the gunman who opened fire at a Texas A&M UNiversity-Commerce homecoming party and killed Byron Craven, Jr., and Kevin Berry.

Jordan Myles, a Black professional wrestler, has called out the WWF for what he suggested is racist imagery on a t-shirt with his name on it.