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  • Crosscurrents
    The Fight for Information, Compensation, and Representation
    Today, we hear about the people working for transparency. Then, why the WNBA’s first contract negotiations in six years have come to a standstill.
  • BART tax? / Tariff ruling impact / The book "Why Fly"
    The impact of the Supreme Court tariff ruling on California; a proposed new sales tax to save for public transit; Caroline Paul's book Why Fly ; the News Quiz!
  • GEOWAV and her DJ duo, Salena perform a set at San Jose’s The Big Game Block Party with Kehlani on February 6, 2025.
    Crosscurrents
    Dancing with our Ancestors
    Today, a Bay Area harpist finds her way to playing on hip-hop stages. Then, learning life lessons from a game of chess. And, a festival puts the spotlight on Black choreographers.
  • Little Saint James Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands
    KALW Culture
    Epstein's Island
    Sandip Roy
    Jeffrey Epstein and his connections to rich and powereful people seems never ending, but Sandip wonders if we had been invited onto that gilded island, how many of us would have had the willpower to refuse.
  • Sadiq hugs his daughter at the San Quentin parenting prom
    Charting a New Path Forward
    Today, the historical significance behind a special creek in East Oakland. Then, we hear a father in prison sends a love letter to his daughter. Plus, Oakland poet James Cagney draws from Zen Buddhism for his latest collection.