All Pieces for Eve Abrams

 
Jahi Salaam, A Young New Orleans Poet, Raps About Prison, School And Poverty
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 8 Jahi Salaam is an 18-year-old rapper and a poet from New Orleans. His first name, Jahi, means dignity in Swahili. His last nam...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 09:26
A New Orleans rabbi and her congregants are starting new conversations about mass incarceration
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 7 Congregants at a New Orleans synagogue study and educate themselves about mass incarceration and form bonds with formerly inca...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 1
This Louisiana mother waits, and paints, and strives to free her son
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 6 What do you do when a member of your family is locked up for a crime you are sure he didn’t commit? Sheila Phipps paints. She...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 09:20
  • Purchases: 1
Black families in New Orleans live in constant fear of having their young men put in jail
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1 Episode 5 Louisiana is the world's incarceration capital. That means more families in Louisiana have a loved one behind bars than in any ...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 09:21
  • Purchases: 1
If you pass through New Orleans courts, innocent or not, you still have to pay
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 4 The way our criminal justice system works, there’s a significant cost to just being accused of a crime. Innocent or not, one w...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 1
With so many homeless caught up in the criminal legal system, New Orleans holds court at a shelter
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 3 Last episode, we learned about Louisiana's largest criminal court, New Orleans' Municipal Court. This time we follow Municipal...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 09:06
  • Purchases: 1
For many in New Orleans, Municipal Court is the gateway to the criminal legal system
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 2 The United States has five percent of the world’s population, but over 25 percent of its prisoners. We imprison more people t...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 09:05
  • Purchases: 1
People who've served time are being left out of voting
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 1 Louisiana, unlike many of its Deep South neighbors, restores voting rights to citizens with felony convictions after they have...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 1
Megabus Tells Story of New Orleans' Katrina Diaspora
From: Eve Abrams
Caption: The most popular destinations for Megabus routes out of New Orleans are Atlanta and Houston., Credit: Eve Abrams
Ten years after New Orleans flooded following Hurricane Katrina, the city has changed. New Orleans is now home to far fewer Black people and far fe...

Bought by KZYX and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 27, 2015
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 2
Along Saint Claude
From: Eve Abrams
Caption: Eppy Livaccari, Credit: Jonathan Traviesa
Gentrification is just the newest name for the changes happening in New Orleans' neighborhoods downriver from the French Quarter. Along Saint Claud...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Poetic Port of Entry
From: Eve Abrams
Caption: Meena 3
Meena means "port of entry" in Arabic -- a fitting name for the journal of poetry, art, and literature produced in the ports of New Orleans, Louisi...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2010
  • Length: 05:34
Adult Play Time
From: Eve Abrams
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This short documentary (with music!) provides a window into the costuming tradition in New Orleans.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KUOW


  • Added: Feb 17, 2009
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 2
Since The Flood
From: Eve Abrams
Caption: PRX default Piece image
New Orleanians reflect on their lives in the three years since the failure of the Federal Levees resulting from Hurricane Katrina

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 28, 2008
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 1
Costuming for Mardi Gras
From: Eve Abrams
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Costuming is a way of life during the Mardi Gras Season

Bought by WTJU, KRCB 104.9, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 3
Block Party
From: Eve Abrams
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A block of Brooklynites revive an old tradition

  • Added: Jan 13, 2007
  • Length: 06:38
The Meeting
From: Eve Abrams
Caption: PRX default Piece image
a short story, with a bit of music

  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 13:26
In Praise of New Orleans Brass Bands
From: Eve Abrams
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This oral essay sings the praises of one of New Orleans' greatest gifts to the world: brass bands.

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and WKMS


  • Added: Sep 25, 2005
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Things I Love New Orleans
From: Eve Abrams
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is an homage to magnificent New Orleans.

Bought by WMNF, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WMPG


  • Added: Sep 22, 2005
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Back to School
From: Eve Abrams
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Kids starting junior high school share their excitements and anxieties.

Bought by KZYX and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 02, 2005
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 2

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