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 anniversary of Rodney King's beating drew attention to how the culture of police brutality in Los Angeles, in particular, has seemingly gone unchecked since the horrific video went viral in 1991.
Today, Sandra Bland would have been 38 years old.
Trump's Black History Month proclamation referred to "black Americans" by using a lowercase B in a style that experts say is disrespectful to an entire diaspora.
Jackie Johnson is accused of covering up Ahmaud Arbery's racist murder.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s family spoke out after President Trump ordered files about the civil rights icon's assassination to be declassified.
More than 10,000 Black women thanked former Vice President Kamala Harris in an open letter that credits her leadership.
Could Donald Trump use his presidential power to pardon police officers convicted of killing Black people. The answer is complicated.
Michelle Obama's planned absence at Trump's second inauguration could be explained by her commentary about his first inauguration: "I stopped even trying to smile."
Kendrick Johnson's mother marked the 12th anniversary of her son's mysterious gym mat death by noting there has been no accountability.
A photo op at Jimmy Carter's funeral prompted Donald Trump to say he and Barack Obama "probably" like each other, but there's plenty of evidence to conclusively debunk that notion.
Abraham "Mr. CIAA" Mitchell, an HBCU sports legend who attended the CIAA basketball tournament for decades wearing suits with teams' colors, reportedly died.
Videos show that Republican Sen. Deb Fisher's husband Bruce Fischer happily shook past vice presidents' hands at inaugurations, unlike how he snubbed Kamala Harris.