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.

21-year-old Hannah Payne's murder case for killing 62-year-old Kenneth Herring after a minor hit and run accident in Georgia will move forward.

Bernie Sanders released a new ad, but it was unclear if he was using Pamela Turner’s death for political gain or to express genuine concern for Black lives -- or both.

The Washington Wizards seemed to be moving closer to hiring Danny Ferry as its new general manager following his resignation from another team for a "racist slur" about Africans.

Pamela Turner’s killer is getting the second chance he made sure she'd never get when he shot her multiple times at close range last week in suburban Houston.

With the combination of generous financial support it both receives and supplies, Piney Woods can continue thriving and educating Black and brown students in preparation to successfully enter a college, workforce and society that many times doesn't mirror their image.

An “investigation” into Ralph Northam's blackface medical school yearbook photo couldn't prove if the Virginia governor was actually pictured in the racist image.

The funeral for Pamela Turner, the unarmed grandmother shot and killed by a Baytown Police officer in suburban Houston, was set for this week as Juan Delacruz remained gainfully employed.

A serious House hearing teetered on the inane as Democratic members of Congress took turns grilling Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Capitol Hill.

Newt Gingrich showered Ben Carson with lavish praise in an op-ed and insisted the secretary of Housing and Urban Development was “both helping poor Americans and enforcing the law.”

Cops' treatment of Grady Wayne Wilkes in Alabama for reportedly killing a cop stood in contrast to police shooting and killing unarmed Pamela Turner in Baytown, Texas, one week earlier.

There were some questions about how effective the Scholastic Aptitude Test’s (SAT) new “adversity scores” could be given the test’s racist origins.

“The Baytown Police Department are lying on #pamelaturner when they say she had outstanding warrants,” Benjamin Crump said about the killing of the 45-year-old unarmed grandmother.