# Journalism and commentary [**How Many Black Farmers Are There in the US? Why We Doubt the Government Stats**](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/29/black-farmers-us-census) *The Guardian* August 2024 (with Nathan Rosenberg). [**How the Government Helped White Americans Steal Black Farmland**](https://newrepublic.com/article/166276/black-farm-land-lost-20th-century-billions) *The New Republic* May 2022 (with Dania Francis, Darrick Hamilton, Thomas Mitchell, and Nathan Rosenberg). [**Don't Trust the Antitrust Narrative on Farms**](https://jacobin.com/2021/06/antitrust-farmers-farmworkers-exploitation-agribusiness-low-pay-dangerous-working-conditions) *Jacobin* June 2021 (with Nathan Rosenberg). [**The "Machine That Eats Up Black Farmland"**](https://www.motherjones.com/food/2021/04/the-machine-that-eats-up-black-farmland/) *Mother Jones* May-June 2021 (with Kathryn Joyce and Nathan Rosenberg). *Winner of a National Association of Black Journalists award for investigative journalism.* [**How USDA distorted data to conceal decades of discrimination against Black farmers**](https://thecounter.org/usda-black-farmers-discrimination-tom-vilsack-reparations-civil-rights/) *The Counter* June 2019 (with Nathan Rosenberg). *Nominated for a James Beard award for investigative reporting.* [**Breaking the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Rethinking 'Zero Tolerance**'](https://prospect.org/education/breaking-school-to-prison-pipeline-rethinking-zero-tolerance/) *The American Prospect* June 2014. [**Reversing Broward County's School-to-Prison Pipeline**](https://prospect.org/power/reversing-broward-county-s-school-to-prison-pipeline/). *The American Prospect* December 2013. [**Moses of Mississippi (interview with Bob Moses)**](https://prospect.org/education/moses-mississippi/) *The American Prospect* August 2013. [**Nikki Giovanni Remembers 1963 with a New Poem (interview)**](https://prospect.org/power/nikki-giovanni-remembers-1963-new-poem/) *The American Prospect* August 2013. [**Teacher, May I Plead the Fifth?**](https://prospect.org/power/teacher-may-plead-fifth/) *The American Prospect* June 2013. [**LLM: Lawyers Losing Money**](https://prospect.org/power/llm-lawyers-losing-money/) *The American Prospect* May 2013. [**Maybe I Would Be Alone**](https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/maybe-i-would-be-alone/) *The Nation* December 2011. *Winner of The Nation's college essay contest.* # Scholarly articles [**More Than CAFOs and Corn: A Statistical Analysis of Agriculture in Six Midwestern States**](https://chlpi.org/news-and-events/news-and-commentary/food-law-and-policy/just-released-data-driven-analysis-of-farm-practices-in-the-midwest/) *Harvard Law Food Law and Policy Clinic* January 2024 (with Nathan Rosenberg). [**The Contemporary Relevance of Historic Black Land Loss**](https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/huri48&div=21&id=&page=) *Human Rights Magazine* 2022-2023 (with Dania Francis, Grieve Chelwa, Darrick Hamilton, Thomas Mitchell, and Nathan Rosenberg). [**The Stakeholders in Agricultural Policy**](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4267345) *The Environmental Forum* July-August 2022 (with Peter Lehner and Nathan Rosenberg). *Winner ELI Press essay of the year.* [**Black Land Loss: 1920-1997 (estimates value of land lost by Black farmers)**](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4214797) *American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings* 2022 (with Dania Francis, Darrick Hamilton, Thomas Mitchell, and Nathan Rosenberg). [**The Butz Stops Here: Why the Food Movement Needs to Rethink Agricultural History**](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3030355) *Journal of Food Law and Policy* 2017 (with Nathan Rosenberg). [**The Reform of Energy Subsidies in Iran**](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1540496X.2015.1080512) *Emerging Markets Finance and Trade* October 2015 (with Djavad Salehi-Isfahani and Joshua Deutschmann). # Presentations [**USDA: The Last Plantation**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0chYoJ_nNs&t=3417s&ab_channel=BCLaw) at Boston College Law School, 2023. [**"A Hard Battle With The World": Black landowners in America**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF2HA3eR5gE&t=1268s&ab_channel=BCLaw) at Boston College Law School, 2023. [**Estimating Black Land-Loss: A First Pass**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYFk1y-5tIA&t=66s&ab_channel=HarvardLawSchoolFoodLawandPolicyClinic) at Harvard Law School, 2019.