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After a historic four-day strike, the San Francisco teachers union has been celebrating reaching a deal with the school district, but not everyone in the union is joining those celebrations.

The classic spiritual conjures themes of freedom and resilience, which flow through a conversation between pianist Lara Downes and the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative.

YLR Host, Jeff Hayden, and tonight's co-host, David Bigeleisen, are joined by Sophia Cope and Tori Noble, attorneys with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. For the past 35 years, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been defending digital privacy, free speech, creativity and innovation, transparency and security -- long before most of us saw the link between technological innovation and the erosion of many of our liberties, imagining what the future could look like when we get things right.Tonight's discussion includes such issues as the search of your electronic devices at the border, use of surveillance to monitor your travel, or your purchases, and the implication of the digital age upon your First Amendment Rights.As this is a re-broadcast, we are not accepting new calls tonight.We return live, next week, with a look at resentencing in criminal cases. in two weeks: our year-end tax tips. Best of all, we'll once again take your calls and answer your questions.

On today's show a play that's about a play, about former Pres. Thomas Jefferson and his enslaved mistress Sally Hemmings. Then, the amazing singing group Naturally 7 is coming to Oakland. And, a hip-hop artist from Oakland reflects on fatherhood in a new documentary.

In a slow-motion race of two retail behemoths, Amazon's trump card was its lucrative cloud-computing business.

A Republican voting overhaul is back on Capitol Hill — with an added photo identification provision and an altered name. Opponents say the legislation would disenfranchise millions of voters.

Who says serious athletes are always serious? Akwasi Frimpong, who's competed for Ghana, is a world-class wisecracker as he reflects on being a Black African athlete in the white world of winter sports.

A proposed rule could put nearly 80,000 people at risk of eviction, many of them U.S. citizen children. Undocumented immigrants don't get rental aid but can currently live with family members who do.

A new Kenyan intelligence report said the Kenyans were recruited to fight for Russia in Ukraine after being misled with false promises of jobs in Russia before being sent to the front lines.

The move is another Trump administration effort to limit legal pathways to migration or resettlement, after already curbing the number of admitted refugees and re-reviewing those admitted under the Biden administration.

Black Studies originated right here in the Bay Area in the mid 1960s. Crosscurrents host Hana Baba speaks with East Bay filmmaker Doug Harris - he grew up during this period and tells that story in his documentary, "Epicenter."

Following the firing of 17 of the 21 judges assigned to San Francisco’s immigration courts, the federal administration recently ended its lease at the immigration court at 100 Montgomery street in the City.