Professor, Attorney, Minister, Activist. - Board Member at @GreentheChurch; Consulting Producer of @SmellofMoneyDoc
Harlem, New York
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Check out my recent publication, The Good Samaritan Myth: scholar.smu.edu/smulr/vol79/… in the @SMULawReview: For 50 years, U.S. food waste law has asked corporations to act like Good Samaritans. Read why this strategy has failed and what should replace it.
7/ The article is free to download. If you work on food, hunger, climate, or corporate accountability, I’d be grateful if you’d read it and share: scholar.smu.edu/smulr/vol79/…
6/ I propose a Corporate Partner Food Waste Act: stronger recovery duties near food-insecure communities, penalties scaled to revenue, and real EPA monitoring. Results over good intentions.
5/ France took the opposite route and mandated supermarket donations. Donations soared, but food insecurity barely moved: the rules were rigid and no one tracked whether food reached people in need.
4/ The policy even misreads its own parable. Corporations aren’t the Samaritan, who helped out of compassion. They’re the innkeeper, who helped because he was promised payment.
3/ Even the best performer fell short. Kroger, ranked #1 among U.S. supermarkets for its food waste commitment, cut waste by less than 4% after nine years, against a 50% goal.
2/ The results: food waste grew from 30% of the food supply in 1974 to nearly 40% today. 47.4M Americans face food insecurity. Landfilled food produces about a third of human-related methane emissions.
1/ For 50 years, U.S. food waste law has rested on one assumption: give corporations tax breaks and liability protection, and they’ll donate surplus food like Good Samaritans.
My new article in the SMU Law Review argues that assumption is a myth. 🧵
Yes, even when I'm watching @TheTraitorsUS I'm still working. Check out my latest @Newsweek piece on what the round table reveals about bias in hiring, juries, and Black women's health. Four episodes in, who's getting banished, and why? newsweek.com/what-the-new-se…
The AI Race Is Being Run Like a Sprint When It's Actually a Marathon. tysonlordgray.substack.com/p…
The Howard headlines are missing the real story imo. Broke it down on Substack - Don't Just Blame Howard University. Look Upstream. open.substack.com/pub/tysonl…
The federal government's Earth Day 2026 gift to the planet: a highway expansion initiative.
No, really.
New piece on what that actually means.
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Trump’s New DEI Contractor Order Doesn’t Just Ban DEI. It Requires Companies to Certify Compliance With a Standard That Doesn’t Legally Exist. open.substack.com/pub/tysonl…
The same weekend the Pentagon threatened to blacklist Anthropic as a national security risk, the U.S. military was using Claude to plan the Iran strikes.
Same weekend!!
New piece on what Congress must do before the next standoff 🧵👇
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I was quoted in @USATODAY on SNAP food restrictions rolling out across 22 states.
For 60 years, USDA denied these exact requests. Nothing in the law changed, only the administration.
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#SNAP #FoodPolicy #MAHA #AdministrativeLaw
Making Headlines: What I Told @USATODAY About SNAP's Legal Problem open.substack.com/pub/tysonl…
Check out my new piece in @TheHillOpinion @thehill out now! The new SNAP food restrictions aren’t just confusing — they’re illegal thehill.com/opinion/healthca…
Check out my latest publication where I analyze the compliance crisis facing food retailers as 18 states implement contradictory SNAP food restriction waivers. Full analysis in @Law360 : law360.com/articles/2442747#… #FoodLaw #SNAP #RetailCompliance #RegulatoryLaw
Justice for Pets, Not People: DOJ's Politics of Protection open.substack.com/pub/tysonl… #animalrights #animalprotection #animalwelfare
"Keep hope alive" was never naive optimism. It was a command. A moral imperative. A refusal to let despair be the final word.
We need that same fire today.
🕊️ #JesseJackson #KeepHopeAlive
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