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Crosscurrents

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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.

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Society

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Latest episode

Nov 3, 2026

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Episodes

11/19: Berkeley student hunger crisis / "Unthanksgiving" / Revisiting Jonestown 20.11.2018

• UC Berkeley struggles with a student hunger crisis

11/15: Racial disparities in end-of-life care / Camp Fire update 16.11.2018

• Apocalyptic: A reporter's account of the Camp Fire

11/14: Racial disparities in end-of-life care / SF Dancefest 15.11.2018

• Racial disparities in end-of-life care: How mistrust keeps many African-Americans away from hospice

11/13: Working and homeless / Mystery gas surcharge / Bay Area Beats 14.11.2018

• Working and homeless in Oakland

11/8: Ghost Ship / Bay Area Beats / My Life, My Stories 09.11.2018

• What to expect as the Ghost Ship trial goes to court

11/7: Election recap / A love letter to the Tenderloin / My Life, My Stories 08.11.2018

• California covers its midterms in blue ink

11/5: Election day preview / My Life, My Stories: Senior oral histories 06.11.2018

• 2018 Bay Area Midterm Election Preview

11/1: San Francisco Prop A / Racial discrimination and health / Uncuffed 02.11.2018

• Prop A wants to kickstart repairs on San Francisco seawall

10/31: Public art 'portals' / San Quentin Radio / Is The Chapel haunted? 01.11.2018

• A public art 'portal' connects Bay Area residents to citizens across the world

10/30: Oakland Measure Z / What happens when you call 311 / Ghost town! 31.10.2018

• Oakland Measure Z could raise minimum wage, bring harassment protections to hotel workers

10/29: Costa Hawkins / Bay Area Beats / Ghost stories! 30.10.2018

• After a slew of attack ads, support for Prop 10 plummeted

10/25: California District 15 / Bay Area Beats / Why would I mispronounce my own name? 26.10.2018

• Jovanka Beckles and Buffy Wicks compete to represent California's 15th Assembly District

10/24: Twenty-pound swamp rodents / San Quentin Radio 25.10.2018

• Yes, rodents of unusual size really do exist

10/23: SoMa memories / Photographer Janet Delaney / StoryCorps 24.10.2018

• South of Market to SoMa: A photographic memory of a changing San Francisco neighborhood

10/22: Prop C / Superintendent of instruction / Comedian Marga Gomez 23.10.2018

• San Francisco’s Prop C puts spending on homelessness in the spotlight

10/18: BART board races / Health care for black men / Bay Area Beats 19.10.2018

• In this election, even BART board races are really about housing

10/17: Oakland mayoral Candidate Peter Liu / Fauxnique and Marc Kate / San Quentin Radio 18.10.2018

• Oakland mayoral candidate Peter Liu on politics, tourism, and jobs

10/16: Oakland mayoral candidate Saied Karamooz / Olympian John Carlos / Sideshows 17.10.2018

• Oakland mayoral candidate Saied Karamooz on development, jobs, and housing

10/15: Cannabis taxes / Oakland mayoral candidate Ken Houston / Bay Area Beats 16.10.2018

• If you live in the Bay Area, it's likely you'll be voting on a cannabis tax this November

10/11: Wine country fire update / Oakland mayoral candidate Nancy Sidebotham 12.10.2018

• One year since the fires, a community rebuilds

10/10: Oakland mayoral candidate Pamela Price / Hip-hop with MADlines / San Quentin Radio 11.10.2018

• Oakland mayoral candidate Pamela Price on police reform, SCOTUS, and revitalizing downtown

10/9: Oakland mayoral candidate Marchon Tatmon / Del the Funky Homosapien 10.10.2018

• Oakland mayoral candidate Marchon Tatmon on housing, crime, and police reform

70 Million: Undocumented immigrants are tethered to ICE, and private companies, by ankle monitors 09.10.2018

In a special presentation from KALW News, it’s a story from the new podcast 70 Million, an open-source podcast looking at jail and criminal justice reform in communities across the country. When Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, tries to deport a person without legal status, often it puts them in so-called “detention centers.” ICE say this incarceration is necessary, in order to get und...

10/4: Martins Beach / Oakland mayoral candidate Cat Brooks / Uncuffed 05.10.2018

• In fight over Martins Beach, locals just want respect for their prized coastline

10/3: Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf / San Quentin Radio / Uncuffed 04.10.2018

• Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf talks housing, arts, and the environment

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