Tracie McMillan on “The Metro” / WDET
June 23, 2025 Discussing New York Times Opinion Guest Essay “I Got $4 a Week in Food Stamps. This Is the Reality of Hunger in America.” WDET The Metro
Interviews
Tracie McMillan joins Tavis Smiley to talk health care / Tavis Smiley Show (radio)
Tracie McMillan, Journalist and Author of “The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America” gives her analysis about the failures of the health care system and the challenging privilege of the suspect, Luigi Mangione. Listen on The Tavis Smiley Show website or wherever you get your podcasts. The Tavis Smiley Show.
Tracie McMillan on Stateside: Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024 / Stateside (podcast)
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
Former Visiting Journalist Tracie McMillan Discusses Her Book: The White Bonus / Russell Sage Foundation
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
White Women for Trump? What’s The Cash Value of Racism in America? / The Karen Hunter Show on Sirius XM Radio
Tracie McMillan on her book ‘The White Bonus,’ and white women voters. Great convo with Karen Hunter.
Discussing JD Vance’s White Bonus / Solutions On WURD with Amadee Braxton (radio)
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.
Tracie McMillan joins Tavis Smiley / The Tavis Smiley Show (radio)
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
Being white paid off for JD Vance—by $20 million (at least) / Reckon
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
Author Discussion on Slavery and Race in America / Mississippi Book Festival (C-SPAN)
Authors Tracie McMillan, Kidada Williams, Grace Elizabeth Hale and Dionne Ford spoke about slavery and race in America. Watch the panel on C-SPAN.
“The Cash Value of Racism in America—and Its Schools” with Tracie McMillan / South Talks at University of Mississippi
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
