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.
The hunger strike in California prisons and being put away in the Security Housing Unit (SHU), long-lasting consequences of having a juvenile criminal record, an East Oakland man changes his path away from criminality, and local musicians Te Pura O Te.
One year later, the People’s Library transforms into a community space; Fruitvale Station re-frames cinematic portraits of African American males; a new exhibit explores Muslim women's art and voices; KALW's Seth Samuel is engaged to KALW's Alyssa Kapnik!! and local blues artists Stu Allen and Mars Hotel.
Prison hunger strike continues; Brothers in Pen: Creative writing from San Quentin; [freespace]: a temporary space for lasting change; this week's Audiograph answer revealed! And local songwriter Beth Marlin.
Broken Windows.
Controversial Plan Bay Area adopted by regional planners; Homeless Haircuts, Revisited; A new book chronicles African American history in the Bay Area; and Give a hand to the Golden Gate Park Band!
A special show about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD. Local musicians are Wild Moth.
The social work of Meals on Wheels, an interview with San Francisco's poet laureate Alejandro Murguia, and singer Kelly McFarling on the importance of San Francisco as home.
Tech startups give power back to the family farm; Hear Here: Ryan Lee's love affair with bread; Sacred Harp: the punk rock of choral music; and local pianist Mike Greensill.
Fracking: a small town deals with big oil; raising a polar bear; and local group Joyful Noise Jazz Band.
The Bay Area's reaction to the Zimmerman verdict, remembering the oft-forgotten people who die in San Francisco's Tenderloin, Richmond fights the banks over home foreclosures, and local musicians Down & Outlaws.
An in-depth interview with Seth Rosenfeld about his book, "Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals and Reagan's Rise to Power."
An in-depth interview on the idea of unquestioningly accepting the "natural" as something healthy vs. our tendency to have undying faith in anything modern technology gives us.
A Crosscurrents special on Oakland schools, plus memories from within the newsroom of our favorite teachers! Engaging students at Franklin Elementary in East Oakland, music class in public schools, transitioning from public to charter school, charter schools explained with Ingrid Seyer-Ochi, teaching with students in mind at American Indian public schools, Skyline Public High School's high tech classroom, debating at Fremont high, ReVAAMP, and bringing art back into Oakland schools.
The first of a two-part special on education and innovation in Oakland Schools.
In 1999, Jerry Brown called Maurice Lim Miller at home. Brown was mayor of Oakland at the time, and Miller was on the board of an organization applying for more than $10 million dollars for youth programs.
Napa shows its LGBTQ pride; nudists continue to cause controversy despite citywide ban; Oakland-born artist Ise Lyfe explores housing as a human right; this week's Audiograph revealed! and local singer/pianist Brad Brooks.
DOMA is overturned; and Marlena's Curtain Call: a documentary remembering a Hayes Valley gay bar and community hub.
The Citizens Police Review Board in Oakland: who's policing the police? Plus local musicians The Void Boys.
A bibliophilic Crosscurrents: City Lights and Marcus Books in San Francisco, HOWL, KALW's summer reading list, and local musician Gautam Ganeshan.
Do San Franciscans have the right to work from home?; A Radical Idea: Green The Wiggle!; High school student Avi Hoen has a car but isn't sure he needs it; and local band Tri Tip Trio.
An update on City College of San Francisco, Nanette Asimov on how CCSF got to where it is today, students at San Francisco State talk about how the budget cuts are affecting them, California's education Master Plan, and local musicians RocketShip-RocketShip.
The final diary entry of a first-year high school teacher, high school student commentaries on the importance of music in their lives, Will Durst on the NSA, the Audiograph answer of the week, and local musicians The Cottontails.
Diana Diaries, Part 3: Final lessons of teaching in Oakland; Commentary: Student recalls how she found the courage to be herself; San Francisco Chronicle reporter Nanette Asimov's Favorite Teacher; Jazz Perspective: Catherine Russell; and local band The Americano Social Club.
Part 2 in the diaries of a first-year high school teacher in Oakland, a high school commentary on lack of female authors in English curricula, artillery relics in the Marin Headlands, and local musician Teja Gerken.
Diana Diaries, Part 1: A lesson in teaching from a first-time instructor; The road ahead for Oakland schools, according to outgoing Superintendent; and local blues band Crosscut.
Oakland restaurateur looks back on recession; The good, the bad, and the ugly of the Bay Bridge; Meet the woman behind the new Peninsula Museum of Art; Audiograph's Sound of the Week Revealed! and local musicians ZOFO Duet.
A special Crosscurrents from Mills College: not being able to afford to move away from violent neighborhoods, a family restaurant is a pillar of the neighborhood, and an African-American church adapts to its changing neighborhood. Plus local musicians The American Nomad.
Stanford fellow tracks Nigerian government files online; Grow your own farm-fresh wardrobe; Youth Radio: Rethinking fashion after Bangladesh; and Bay Area a cappella choir The Pacific Mozart Ensemble.
A special on Oakland's Fruitvale/San Antonio district: Met West High School has its students do internships to graduate, a dating abuse program for middle schoolers, the Oakland School of the Arts, and local musicians Mad Noise.
It takes a village: when special ed works; San Francisco's only free and democratic Conservatory of Music; this week's Audiograph answer revealed!; and local singer Meredith Axelrod.
