Amara Evering
WLRN InternAmara Evering is a summer 2026 intern at WLRN. She was born in Washington, D.C., a city where news, politics and protests happen all at once.
This informed her work at the radio station WPFW-FM. There, she served as a journalist and host on the morning show, "Monday Morning QB." In 2021, she was awarded the Alice Rowan Swanson Fellowship to write and produce the original radio series “For Ama”. Currently, she is an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Miami. Her poetry and prose have been published in The Contemporary, Conceit Magazine, and the Survivor Anthology. Much of her writing is informed by her Gullah-Geechee and Jamaican heritage.
When she is not writing or reporting, she is taking dance classes in Little Haiti, going to art museums and reading magical realism.
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At the Global Empowerment Mission warehouse, hundreds of volunteers hurried past each other to pack emergency supplies for families affected by the powerful earthquakes that devastated Venezuela earlier this week. “We need more hands," said one volunteer. -
Portugal faces off against an undefeated Colombia team on Saturday at Hard Rock Stadium for one of the World Cup's most anticipated matches. For Portugal fans in Miami, the stakes feel especially high: this is the last World Cup for renowned soccer player, Cristiano Ronaldo. -
Dozens of people came to honor the estimated 2 million people who died at sea during the Middle Passage — the brutal forced voyages that carried over 10 million African captives across the Atlantic. -
In Opa-locka, community members waited in the pews of New Generation Missionary Baptist Church – not for a regularly scheduled service, but for an emergency meeting about congressional redistricting. -
Thousands of U.S-based Cuban immigrants have been deported to Mexico under the Trump administration, according to Human Rights Watch. Left in limbo, they are stranded in the country — unable to return to either the U.S or Cuba.
