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.

Recent Articles

How Lauryn Hill Educated the Music Industry 20 Years Ago

Twenty years after her debut solo album is released, her radicalism reverberates

By Brandon Tensley

African-American Actors Ruled Hollywood This Year

Let's hope fiction will catalyze reality

By Brandon Tensley

What Seeing a Black Olympic Gymnast Meant to Me

And why it matters that 3 of the 'Final Five' are women of color

By Brandon Tensley

Germany's Wall That Didn’t Fall

25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a divide remains in Germany that threatens the stability of the European continent—the separation between native and non-native Germans

By Brandon Tensley
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