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nia t. evans is a freelance writer based in New York City. From 2021-2022, she was a Black Voices in the Public Sphere fellow at Boston Review. Her writing has also appeared in Dissent, Slate, and Hammer & Hope.
Boston Review’s Black Voices in the Public Sphere fellowship program handed me a bounty few early-career writers ever receive.
A conversation with Dan Berger and veteran activists Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons on the origins of Black Power and the work of coalition building.
The system's roots aren't in rescuing children, but in the policing of Black, Indigenous, and poor families.
We need to reckon with police lies not only as a form of individual misconduct but as a matter of political speech.
The authors of Abolition. Feminism. Now. discuss why racialized state violence and gender-based violence have to be fought together.
Derecka Purnell discusses her new book Becoming Abolitionists, how she came to join the movement against policing and prisons, and what a just world looks like.
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