nia t. evans
nia t. evans is a freelance journalist based in New York City. Her work has appeared in Dissent, Prism, Electric Literature, Slate, and New York magazine. She was previously an editorial advisor at Hammer & Hope, a 2023–2024 Mother Jones investigative fellow, and a fellow at Boston Review.
How to Hold a City Hostage
Historian Stuart Schrader on the untold history of police unions—and how they helped catapult cops to new heights of power and impunity.
The Kitchen Tables Behind Mamdani’s Kitchen-Table Strategy
Staging sites aren’t new to political campaigns, but they’ve never been done like this before.
What I couldn’t have done without Boston Review
Boston Review’s Black Voices in the Public Sphere fellowship program handed me a bounty few early-career writers ever receive.
The Intimate Project of Solidarity
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 “Benevolent Terror” of the Child Welfare System
The system’s roots aren’t in rescuing children but in the policing of Black, Indigenous, and poor families.
Blue Lies Matter
We need to reckon with police lies not only as a form of individual misconduct but as a matter of political speech.
