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.
As Americans grow older, more of us will either need or be caregivers. But who cares for the caregivers? And what are they doing to care for themselves? In this special hour-long presentation from Capital Public Radio we hear about the state of caregiving in America.
In Sacramento, a city in one of the richest agricultural regions of the country, tens of thousands of residents go hungry each day. In this special hour-long presentation from Capital Public Radio we hear about food insecurity in the region.
One out of four adults in California is a high school dropout. Class Dismissed takes an up-close look at the crisis through the lives of four young people from the Central Valley. The stories reveal what's at stake for their future and ours.
Twenty years after a sharp rise in autism rates, thousands of California children are aging out of special education. Each one enters adulthood with a unique combination of social deficits that promises a challenging life, even with support. In this special hour-long presentation from Capital Public Radio we hear what happens when autism grows up.
A reporter goes undercover as a prison guard. How inmates are reaching out to support one another inside San Quentin State Prison. How one local performer brings people together with the power of song.
Medical innovations for dealing with incontinence.Playwright Star Finch imagines the coming era of hyper-technology.The true cost of a ballot signature.
Catching up with a couple we met two years ago who were using a bus line as their shelter. A conversation with Jeff Kositsky, San Francisco’s first director of the department of homelessness. The story behind this week’s Audiograph mystery sound.
One couple's experience living in the Navigation Center—and what came after.Navigation Center Director Julie Leadbettertalks about the center's new approach.Inside the Tenderloin post office's general delivery window.
Meet a disabled activist as he gathers information for his next article in homeless newspaper Street Spirit. A man who’s been homeless for eight years describes what selling the Street Spirit newspaper has meant for him. A live conversation with an organization that works to keep homeless youth off the streets.
A ride-along with a team trying to make a dent San Francisco’s homelessness problem. A San Francisco nonprofit provides the basics to people living on the street.How homeless women cope with getting their period.
A new take on an old staple —the battery. A policy that will give San Franciscans access to 100 percent renewables without changing a thing. East Bay residents who’ve changed their attitudes toward conservation.
How trauma can be passed down through generations.A multilingual glossary that opens up new spaces for conversation.A StoryCorps coming out story, with a twist.
How a San Francisco elementary school created a model for inclusive restrooms that the city, state and maybe the nation would follow.A program in San Francisco aims to provide better healthcare to the city’s transgender residents.What does it mean to be trans in the Bay Area and America? Stories from San Quentin Prison Report and StoryCorps.
The latest on the scandal rocking the Oakland Police Department.A day with volunteer lawyers in San Francisco’s immigration court. A play about what happens when society keeps pronouncing your name wrong.
The “breathmobile” brings relief to Bay Area schools where kids suffer from asthma.An investigation into underpaid, overworked foreign workers at the Tesla factory in Fremont.
What’s behind an increase in airplane noise over the Peninsula? Healing ourselves with sound.Let's headway, way, way South.
The Bay Area honors victims of the Orlando shooting. Inside San Quentin, ex-pimps combat sex trafficking by speaking up and speaking out.This year’s Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist on drawing in the digital age.
A special report on unaccompanied migrants from Central America seeking asylum in Oakland. The media attention has died down, but kids continue to make their way to the Bay Area. Their journeys aren't over once they arrive.
A public bus that works like Uber. Driving in an express lane...for a small fee.What's your dream Bay Area transit system?
How a San Francisco ballot measure might expand the power of one police watchdog. A report from Youth Radio on what “the Latino vote” really means. A look inside "the fight club of underground art."
Two San Francisco supervisors debate for one spot in the state senate. Chris Siebert, Lavay Smith and the classic San Francisco band Red Hot Skillet Lickers. This week's Audiograph mystery sound revealed.
Why some think a plan to force developers to build more affordable housing could backfire. Meet the women who wants to break through stereotypes around female surfers.Oakland’s Fantastic Negrito on the roots of his sound.
How Bay Area Republicans are wrapping their heads around a Trump candidacy. Californians vote later than most of the country — is that fair? A composer sets climate change data to music.
San Francisco's newest public school, Willie L. Brown Jr. Middle School, one year in.Playwright Lauren Gunderson on dramatizing women in science.This week's Audiograph mystery sound, revealed.
Measure AA proposes a region-wide tax to fight sea level rise.Connecting to the natural world through Polynesian dance. Flamenco finds a home in East Oakland.
Let's celebrate KALW's 75th birthday with special guest Peaches Christ.
A special live edition of Crosscurrents showcasing KALW-affiliated podcasts!
In East Oakland, a woman uses art to heal after her grandmother's home was foreclosed on.Snapshots from San Francisco’s SOMA district, from back before they called it SOMA. Our favorite moments from the many artist interviews we’ve aired on Crosscurrents.
A special hour-long episode, with special guest Jesse Thorn, host of NPR’s "Bullseye." A story from the first episode of "Crosscurrents" reported by the show's first sound engineer, Roman Mars. The first openly transgender head pastor of a Lutheran Church. And the country’s first openly gay marching band.
An arts nonprofit works with a rapidly changing Oakland.Richmond teens tackle the tough subject of dating violence – through theater.The man who helped change the way we experience live rock music.
