View the original page here. In today’s edition of Stateside, earlier this year Tracie McMillan published a book on where she recounts her late mother’s battle with health insurance. She joined Stateside to talk about what is on her mind after the recent fatal shooting of a health insurance executive in New York. Then, recently, Crystallee Crain, an … Read more
Read the original post here. Tracie McMillan is an independent, award-winning journalist and author. She was an RSF visiting journalist in spring 2022. Her essays and journalism have been published in many publications including the New York Times, Mother Jones, Harper’s, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and National Geographic. Her first book, The … Read more
Tracie McMillan on her book ‘The White Bonus,’ and white women voters. Great convo with Karen Hunter.
Tracie McMillan joins Amadee Braxton to discuss applying the framework of The White Bonus to JD Vance. You can watch the segment on WURD’s Facebook page here, starting at minute 18:30.
October 4, 2024 • 22 mins Author Tracie McMillan on her new book “The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America,” and how Senator JD Vance has benefited from racist industries, polices and white male privilege. Listen on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Tavis Smiley … Read more
By Tracie McMillan See original article Update: The article was also co-published in Amsterdam News and Cincinnati City Beat. JD Vance, the Ohio senator and Republican candidate for vice president, does not talk much about being white. Yet an analysis of public records indicates that more than $20 million has flowed to the self-styled “hillbilly” … Read more
Authors Tracie McMillan, Kidada Williams, Grace Elizabeth Hale and Dionne Ford spoke about slavery and race in America. Watch the panel on C-SPAN.
Talk given at The Center for the Study of Southern Culture, part of the University of Mississippi on September 12, 2024. After journalist Tracie McMillan began reporting on the material advantages of racial privilege in America, she ended up in the public schools of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Using the story of two millennial sisters—the Becker girls—as … Read more
In a recent article in the Detroit Free Press, author and journalist Tracie McMillan explores the story of Ferndale’s segregated schools and how her own personal story fits into it. She joins The Metro to discuss how her parents’ decisions impacted her own life outcomes and the ways that are woven into a broader story about American inequality.
We’ve seen workplace DEI programs, Affirmative Action, and other policies that are meant to address the legacy of racism in America come under attack in recent months, with many white folks claiming that they are being discriminated against because of these policies. Author Tracie McMillan challenges this narrative in her latest book, “The White Bonus: … Read more
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