Crosscurrents
Summary: Crosscurrents is KALW Public Radio's award-winning news magazine, broadcasting in the Bay Area Mondays through Thursdays on 91.7 FM. We make joyful, informative stories that engage people across the economic, social, and cultural divides in our community.
Podcasts:
• In a city divided, what can we expect from Mayor London Breed? • California Speaks: What should we do to improve the news media? • Buskers of San Francisco: Larry • Buskers of San Francisco: Cordell
• In the aftermath of Nia Wilson’s death, Oakland grieves • California divers fight turn the tide on a collapsing ecosystem • Pooches hang 10 at World Dog Surfing Championships
Every Lunar New Year, Chinese American women from across the country travel to San Francisco to participate in the Miss Chinatown USA pageant — an ethnic beauty pageant that’s been a national event since the late fifties.
• BART proposes increased security and surveillance after killings • StoryCorps: Keeping family traditions alive • Expanding traditions: LGBTQ folklórico takes to the stage
• One fish two fish: counting salmon on the Russian River • How one landowner is building a better habitat for salmon along the Russian River • How a Culinary Mistake Became a Legendary Dish: Napa’s Malfatti
• United Methodist Church alleges moral corruption in Glide's leadership • Reflections on end-of-life care as Zen Hospice Project Guest House closes • San Francisco Bay Area Pro-Am attracts local hoops heroes
When a ballet teacher told co-host Leila Day that her back should be straight on the ground, no light shining through, and Leila couldn't make it happen, her dreams to be a ballet dancer disappeared. The world of classical ballet is extremely difficult to break into, and for those who have darker skin, there's a lot that comes with it, especially when you're "the only". This episode looks at breaking the line.
• C alifornia could give compensation to forced sterilization survivors • Black journalists to KTVU-TV: Do better • Bay Area Beats: Lydia Pense Tune in to KALW 91.7 FM Monday–Thursday at 5 p.m. or listen on-demand wherever you get your podcasts.
• San Francisco’s Transbay Transit Center finally opens—without trains • Bike, Train or Automobile? Three reporters race through morning commute
• A’s celebrate 50 years in the Town • Why are the Oakland A’s so good this year? • 19th-century baseball lives on in Bay Area parks
What has happened in the Bay Area is the past decade? Crosscurrents host Hana Baba and news director Ben Trefny look back at the historic moments that have shaped our coverage and share clips from the award-winning journalism that came out of it.
Who gets to choose which African stories get told? In this special episode from The Stoop , we meet three writers, each of them pushing against a mostly white US and UK-based publishing industry in their own way.
• Immigrants, refugees, and US teens connect in the Sierras • Student writers, activists from around the world congregate in San Francisco • Bay Area Beats: ASTU
• Hey Area: Where is the best place for fresh produce in East Oakland with WIC vouchers • A revolutionary poet fans the Bay's literary fires
• Immigrant women providing a taste of Oaxaca to Central Valley • How young Ethiopians and Eritreans feel about new peace back home • StoryCorps: “Just so you know, I’m transgender”
