As a child, Tom Evans spent his summers with his grandparents in Michigan’s UP. He attended Cass Tech High School in Detroit. He has degrees from the University of Michigan and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He retired as an associate professor in the Department of Language and Literature at North Carolina Central University in Durham. In his career he has taught courses in English, mass communication and philosophy. For the last few years, he has been keeping his hand in the game teaching ethics at NCCU part time.
