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Do Shakespearian dramas reveal the prejudices of his time, or do they reinforce those prejudices? -
BOB WHITE/CRW PHOTOGRAPHYRhonda Benin is a professional singer and her experience as a woman in music led her to create an annual Women’s History Month concert, “Just Like A Woman,” eleven years ago. The show features a cast of powerful female singers from the Bay Area along with Rhonda, and it happens this Saturday at the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley.
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Philosophy TalkWhat’s the difference between a rude comment, outright hate speech, and other forms of harm? -
Hate acts have spiked in California since 2020, and now, there’s a new statewide hotline that’s built to help. -
75 years ago, armed Zionist militias violently expelled more than 80 percent of Palestinians from their homes and established the state of Israel. In the Bay Area, Palestinian survivors, their children, and their grandchildren still fight to return home. -
In recent years, schools and colleges across the Bay Area have begun to reexamine their own names—and the history and legacies they represent. The newest institution to join the fray is De Anza College, where there is a push to rethink the school’s namesake. -
October is Filipino Heritage month and we're revisiting an interview with Choreographer Alleluia Panis. -
Your CallTwo Florida Professors join us to discuss the ramifications of the state's so-called Stop Woke Act. Last year, state lawmakers across the country proposed 137 bills restricting classroom conversations and staff training about race, racism, gender identity, and sexual orientation in K-12 schools, according to PEN America. -
This story orignally aired in 2014 and most recently aired in the November 7th, 2022 Crosscurrents episode.There's a mountain of statistics that suggest… -
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Your CallOn this edition of Your Call, we discuss Black Mothers Love & Resist, a documentary about the mothers of young Black men victimized and killed by police brutality, who come together and build a network of community-led support, mutual aid, and healing. Wanda Johnson, the mother of Oscar Grant, now supports mothers like Angela Williams, whose son, Ulysses, survived a police beating in Alabama, living to tell his story. The film will be screened at this year's San Francisco International Film Festival. -
Out in the Bay"Gender is queer for everyone,” says scholar and author Kathryn Bond Stockton. She doesn’t mean “queer” only in the LGBTQIA+ sense — she means the dictionary definition: strange. “Gender is strange even when it’s played straight.”
