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Tracie McMillan

A rural Midwestern transplant to New York City, Tracie McMillan is the author of The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America and the New York Times bestseller, The American Way of Eating, which won the Books for a Better Life Award and the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism. A onetime target of Rush Limbaugh, McMillan also oversees national coverage of worker organizing for Capital & Main.
Politics

A Lot of ‘Gifted’ Kids Like Me Were Really Just White

“Gifted” programs funnel money towards a disproportionate share of white students.