--- title: Brandon Tensley | TIME description: Tensley is an associate editor for New America, a co-host of Slate’s Outward podcast and a contributing writer at Pacific Standard. canonical: https://time.com/author/brandon-tensley/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/brandon-tensley/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Brandon Tensley ## Brandon Tensley _Tensley is an associate editor for New America, a co-host of Slate’s Outward podcast and a contributing writer at_ Pacific Standard_._ ## Brandon Tensley *  Aug 25, 2018 ### [How Lauryn Hill Educated the Music Industry 20 Years Ago](https://time.com/5377938/miseducation-lauryn-hill-anniversary/) Twenty years after her debut solo album is released, her radicalism reverberates [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Dec 14, 2016 ### [African-American Actors Ruled Hollywood This Year](https://time.com/4595857/2016-hollywood-diversity/) Let's hope fiction will catalyze reality [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 12, 2016 ### [What Seeing a Black Olympic Gymnast Meant to Me](https://time.com/4450741/olympics-gymnastics-diversity/) And why it matters that 3 of the 'Final Five' are women of color [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 8, 2014 ### [Germany's Wall That Didn’t Fall](https://time.com/3573150/berlin-wall-fall-germany/) 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a divide remains in Germany that threatens the stability... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: {"meta\_title":"","meta\_description":"","og\_title":"","og\_description":"","og\_imageConnection":{"edges":\[\],"\_\_typename":"SysAssetConnection"},"twitter\_card":null,"\_\_typename":"Seo"} ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/brandon-tensley/","name":"Brandon Tensley"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/brandon-tensley/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/brandon-tensley/"},"name":"Brandon Tensley","jobTitle":"","description":"Tensley is an associate editor for New America, a co-host of Slate’s Outward podcast and a contributing writer at Pacific Standard.","url":"https://time.com/author/brandon-tensley/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```