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 legendary Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings will be making Black history by lying in state in the U.S. Capitol's Rotunda.

Elijah Cummings, the Congressman from Maryland and one of the main Democrats leading the charge to impeach the president, has died.

Atatiana Jefferson was set to be buried one week after a Fort Worth police officer gunner her down in her own home.

The proliferation of Black police chiefs in America has corresponded with the seemingly neverending streak of police killing unarmed Black people. Something's got to give.

There were a lot of complaints about the Democratic debate moderators' questions, especially the last one about Ellen Degeneres.

Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro was the lone Democratic presidential candidate to mention the recent scourge of police shootings that have disproportionately targeted Black people, including Atatiana Jefferson.

Black people who served as police officers for decades discuss the internal conflict of being African American and a member of law enforcement.

Black people who served as police officers for decades discuss the internal conflict of being African American and a member of law enforcement.

Black people who served as police officers for decades discuss the internal conflict of being African American and a member of law enforcement.

Fort Worth police killing Atatiana Jefferson in her own home begged the question: When, if ever, should Black people call the police?

The Fort Worth Police Department was in shameless damage control mode after one of its officers killed Atatiana Jefferson, a Black woman in her own home by shooting his gun through a house window.