{"id":32015,"date":"2024-05-06T15:02:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T19:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=32015"},"modified":"2024-05-06T15:02:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T19:02:06","slug":"tensley-12-rounds-up-latest-dei-news-and-more-in-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/tensley-12-rounds-up-latest-dei-news-and-more-in-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"Tensley ’12 rounds up latest DEI news and more in newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an article appearing in Capital B newsletter “Everything’s Political<\/a>,” Furman University alumnus Brandon Tensley ’12 rounds up recent happenings in the U.S. that deal with race, popular culture and politics. The political science and German studies alum explores a lesser-known holiday, the state of affirmative action and DEI programs in higher education, a new film, alleged 2020 presidential race misconduct by a Texas attorney general, and a new city in Louisiana that threatens to draw funding away from schools and social programs in Baton Rouge.<\/p>\n

In addition to his bachelor’s from Furman, Tensley holds a master’s in politics from Oxford. Prior to his current role at Capital B, he was a national political writer for CNN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brandon Tensley ’12 covers a lot of ground – from film to the state of DEI programs – in the latest installment of “Everything’s Political,” a Capital B publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":3591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1919,6,16,32],"tags":[2777,2152,2779,2778,2776],"class_list":["post-32015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-capital-b","category-in-the-news","category-modern-languages-and-literature","category-politics-and-international-affairs","tag-2020-presidential-race","tag-affirmative-action","tag-city-incorporation","tag-confederate-holiday","tag-dei-in-higher-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}