Crosscurrents

Today, in a story from the Spiritual Edge, we meet Rosalina Tuyuc. The Guatemalan civil war took her father, husband, and more relatives — her Maya indigenous spirituality helped her heal herself and other widows.

Today, we’re looking back at season one of “The Intersection,” exploring cities one street corner at a time. In this episode, we go to Golden Gate and Leavenworth.

Today we’re featuring stories from podcasts that got their start right here in the Bay Area in partnership with KALW. First, it’s The Stoop featuring voices from across the black diaspora. Then, in Snap Judgment one man makes a gut decision that takes him on a mystical adventure. And, from 99% Invisible, we go to some of San Francisco’s private public spaces. Plus, a note from our news director, Ben Trefny regarding our recent story about the Dear America project.

Today, we’re putting a lot of beeps and other sounds on the air, as we honor the medium that has given our lives so much: radio. We're going to ride the radio waves halfway around the world, to visit a defiant radio station in one of the most repressive countries for journalists. And we’re going to a place where the radio technology of the ages came back to life. Today we won’t need a dial, just a radio.

Former President Trump labeled COVID-19 the "China Virus" and "Kung Flu." Since then, violence targeting Asian Americans has surged.

Today we answer the question, what if your doctor prescribed you a walk in the park instead of a pill? Doctors in San Mateo County are part of a program that's getting patients back to health, by getting them back to nature. Then, we will hear from a real-life Rosie the Riveter. And then, we will listen to a local author read from his new adult adventure book.

Today, we talk about the guerilla art installations that went up across the Bay Area last spring. We will learn more about the Dear America project and why a group of Bay Area artists staged guerilla installations on buildings across the city. Then, a documentary about Congresswoman Barbara Lee gives viewers insight into her personal life and rise to Capitol Hill. And, we listen as San Francisco author Jeniffer Worley reads from her memoir.

Today, we hear from a hairdresser in North Carolina as she contemplates the end of life. Now her mission is to get other people to think about it. Then, on the eve of Yom Kippur, we’ll learn about the importance of a book called the Zohar.

Many of the Bay Area’s public high schools reopened last month after almost a year and a half of remote learning. Today, we learn how a lost year of lockdown has derailed teen mental health. And, we hear from Gray Davis, the only California governor to be successfully recalled. Plus, a San Francisco musical tradition is back.

Today, we hear how California has laws meant to protect workers from heat, but people are still falling victim to hot days. We look at the numbers to find out just how big the state's heat problem really is. Then, we take a look inside the lives of those whose Bay Area homes sit on wheels.

For the last 50 years, people with developmental disabilities have had the right to live the same kind of lives as people without disabilities. But when the pandemic hit, this support system fell apart, leaving many families desperate for help. And it exposed a caregiving crisis that is only expected to get worse.

Today, we hear how bias against people with disabilities exists in hospitals and across California's pandemic response and meet advocates on the front lines of this issue. Then, we learn about a group of disabled doctors and medical students at Stanford who are working to help more doctors understand disability.

Today, we learn about a program in San Mateo that keeps people out of nursing homes and off the streets and how California's Medi-Cal program is trying to follow their lead. Then, in a story from our archives about the thing we are all bound to encounter, we hear table-side conversations at a Death Cafe.

Today on Crosscurrents, we hear about what happens when you integrate housing, and public healthcare. We speak with Dr. Josh Bamberger about how the pandemic provided an unlikely opportunity to combine the two. Then, we meet an Oakland artist who created a residency for Black artists. And, we listen a San Francisco author read from her children’s book.

Today, a nurse practitioner takes us inside one of San Francisco's shelter-in-place hotels, and we hear from one of the hotel's guests about how regular medical care has made a difference in their life. It's the first in a three-part series about aging, healthcare, and homelessness. Then, we hear how billions of state dollars are coming into public schools and get a breakdown of where it's going. And, Mill Valley author Christine Peck reads from her new children’s book about a girl named Izzy.