Crosscurrents is the award-winning daily news magazine from KALW Public Radio. We make joyful, informative stories that engage people across the divides in our community - economic, social, and cultural.
People joke that San Francisco has more dogs than children. But is it true? We talk about the kid census in the City with Chronicle journalist Susie N...
The wars in Guatemala during the 1980s and 90s killed close to 200-thousand Guatemalans. The conflict wounded many people in body and spirit — among t...
For years, mental health advocates have been vocal about the criminalization of people with mental illnesses. Now activists and government leaders are...
The Hum is a mysterious low pitch noise that bothers up to 2% of people worldwide. It’s been annoying residents in San Francisco's Sunset District, wh...
Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor began by telling the everyday stories of incarcerated men. Then they entered a podcast contest, and everything fell into...
Afghan refugees are resettling in the Bay Area, how a local non profit is helping despite the challenges. Then, two incarcerated fathers share the pai...
An Oakland race healer is getting folks to have some tough intra-racial conversations. We, listen to some of the voices working to connect Black commu...
It’s been 30 years since the Oakland Firestorm, and we hear from those who lived through it and remember its lessons. We look at the aftermath of one ...
It’s been 30 years since the 1991 Oakland firestorm. Today, we look back at one of the most destructive and deadliest fires in California history. The...