Crosscurrents
Series produced by KALW
Context, culture and connection from around the Bay Area.
KALW's Crosscurrents is the Bay Area's public radio news magazine. Winner of three awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and voted "Best Local News Program" by SF Weekly, Crosscurrents brings you context, culture and connection from around the Bay Area.
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Since 1989, San Francisco has been a sanctuary city -- a place that offers undocumented migrants a chance to start a new life, without the threat o...
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 11:40
There are now more displaced people around the world than at any time since the end of World War II. In the Bay Area, some local groups are creatin...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 10:57
- Purchases: 1
At the corner of Broadway and 25th Street in Oakland, there’s black building with a name painted on it that might makes you do a double-take – God’...
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 07:34
In recent years it has become more and more common for arrangements to buy and sell sex to be made online and behind closed doors. A lot of the tim...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 06:52
- Purchases: 1
It’s been over a year since undocumented immigrants in California have been able to get driver’s licenses through the AB 60 law. The first week the...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 05:31
- Purchases: 1
Many people living in need rely on churches for meals, support or simply a place to get off the street and rest. But like other types of service ce...
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 07:30
There’s been a lot of news about refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Sudan and their attempts to enter Europe, but we hear far less about people t...
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 09:08
One of the most popular parks in the country is just north of the Golden Gate bridge in Marin County. It’s so close to San Francisco that Muir Wood...
- Added: Sep 13, 2016
- Length: 05:31
As American cities recover from floods, hurricanes and violent political demonstrations, we take a look at one of San Francisco’s more unusual tool...
- Added: Sep 18, 2017
- Length: 06:28
Eric Cetnarski works as a sound healer in Oakland. Sound healing can be many things: from listening to our favorite songs to using our voices.
- Added: Sep 19, 2017
- Length: 05:39
For many people, this is a time to reflect on what it means to live in the United States. The election season revealed a divided nation, and many f...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Sep 20, 2017
- Length: 07:06
- Purchases: 1
There's an increased use of live music at Bay Area’s major hospitals and hospices to bring healing and comfort to people who are near death.
- Added: Sep 21, 2017
- Length: 09:25
In the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, the San Francisco Police Department may be preventing injection drug users from getting clean needles. That cou...
- Added: Sep 25, 2017
- Length: 10:55
Safe Time Home Sharing, a new nonprofit, is trying to alleviate the homelessness crisis by asking East Bay residents to open their homes, and tempo...
- Added: Oct 03, 2017
- Length: 09:15
“Lasting Letters: Leaving a legacy behind” reports on legacy letters and how they are helping people prepare for death, say goodbye, and grieve lov...
- Added: Oct 12, 2017
- Length: 17:46
Over the next decade, between 500,000 and a million children with autism will age into adulthood. Advocates say when it comes to giving these indiv...
- Added: Dec 11, 2017
- Length: 10:18
