Crosscurrents Podcast

This is the second story in a four-part award-winning series “Persistent Poison: Lead’s Toxic Legacy in the Bay Area.

This is the second story in a four-part award-winning series “Persistent Poison: Lead’s Toxic Legacy in the Bay Area.

In it, we explore how Alameda county’s lead problem goes hand in and with the region’s high rents. We meet a family who believes their daughter got lead poisoning from their apartment building. They complained to their landlord, and the family claims he evicted them because of it.

This is the first story in our four-part award-winning series “Persistent Poison: Lead’s Toxic Legacy in the Bay Area.

A 2017 Reuters report showed that a few Bay Area neighborhoods have some of the highest rates of childhood lead poisoning in the country.

• Why most electric cars will lose carpool lane rights
• Actress Nilaja Sun brings a New York family and hurricane to Bay Area audiences in 'Pike St'
• Live from the Dickens Christmas Fair

• After the Camp Fire, a Butte County business asks: ‘How can we help?’
• Chemicals without borders: Unearthing the Green Revolution

• After Paradise: Day 18 (excerpted segment)
• After Paradise: Day 19 (excerpted segment)
• A pattern of farmer suicides in Punjab: Unearthing the Green Revolution

Today we travel between the Central Valley and Punjab, India, to see how “the green revolution” transformed agriculture and immigration. Then, hear from SF muralist and tattoo artist Mel Waters about paying tribute to the city’s history through art.

• The strike that led to the country's first Ethnic Studies department
• Ethnic studies 50 years later: Where are we now?
• San Francisco columnist Chuck (CW) Nevius brings his journalism experiences to the stage

First, an update on midterm results and what we're looking forward to. Then, from Uncuffed, the story of a prisoner who dreams of being a rancher. And, an update on Druid Heights, a bohemian escape in the backwoods of Marin County that The Cultural Landscape Foundation recently added it to its list of at-risk landscapes.

• Cannabis tourism rolls out in San Francisco
• 'Generation Priced Out’ wants San Francisco to legalize apartment buildings
• San Quentin Radio: Losing your language in prison

This award-winning documentary explores the lives of Sikh youth in America, and how they confront and respond to violence, sometimes with humor.

• Greener homes: Rebuilding Santa Rosa one year after the fires
• Bay View: Why the Galeria de la Raza Matters
• Preserving holiday memories for future hunger pangs

•  UC Berkeley struggles with a student hunger crisis
•  "Unthanksgiving" on Alcatraz
•  Congresswoman Jackie Speier's firsthand account of terror and tragedy at Jonestown

• Apocalyptic: A reporter's account of the Camp Fire
• Challenges and cultural barriers faced by Asians and Latinos at the end of life

• Racial disparities in end-of-life care: How mistrust keeps many African-Americans away from hospice
• San Francisco International DanceFest celebrates 20 years

• Working and homeless in Oakland
• Berkeley economist says there’s a “mystery surcharge” for California gas
• Bay Area Beats: Karl Digerness & Minna Choi

• What to expect as the Ghost Ship trial goes to court
• Bay Area Beats: Aish
• My Life, My Stories: Sam Alicia Duke on renouncing Catholicism

• California covers its midterms in blue ink
• 'Life is Fare' Director Sephora Woldu on her “love letter” to the Tenderloin
• My Life, My Stories: Jose fled Salvadoran Civil War for stability in San Francisco

• 2018 Bay Area Midterm Election Preview
• San Francisco non-profit collects senior oral histories to combat loneliness
• My Life, My Stories: Karen remembers the love and loss during the HIV/AIDS epidemic in San Francisco

•  Prop A wants to kickstart repairs on San Francisco seawall
• How does racial discrimination affect black women's health?
• The secrets of making great sushi in prison

• A public art 'portal' connects Bay Area residents to citizens across the world
• Rebuilding family relationships from inside prison walls
• From mortuary to music venue: Is The Chapel haunted?

• Oakland Measure Z could raise minimum wage, bring harassment protections to hotel workers
• What happens when you call 311 on a homeless encampment?
• From gold rush to ghost town: A trip to Port Costa

• After a slew of attack ads, support for Prop 10 plummeted
• Bay Area Beats: Olivia Lee of There’s Talk
• A visit to the haunted USS Hornet in Alameda

• Jovanka Beckles and Buffy Wicks compete to represent California's 15th Assembly District
• Bay Area Beats: Kumu Hulu Patrick Makuakāne
• If society keeps pronouncing your name wrong, write a play!

• Yes, rodents of unusual size really do exist
• Twenty-pound swamp rodents threaten California delta
• He’s a young white man, she’s a black transgender woman. They’re cellmates.

• South of Market to SoMa: A photographic memory of a changing San Francisco neighborhood
• Janet Delaney revisits San Francisco's public life with photos of parade and protest in the Mission
• StoryCorps: A bit of color in the darkest of times

• San Francisco’s Prop C puts spending on homelessness in the spotlight
• State superintendent of instruction: The race is on, and it’s expensive
•  Marga Gomez on playing her father on stage

• In this election, even BART board races are really about housing
• More black doctors means better care for black male patients
• Bay Area Beats: Gilberto Rodriguez y Los Intocables

• Oakland mayoral candidate Peter Liu on politics, tourism, and jobs
• Fauxnique and Marc Kate combine horror, sound, dance, and drag
• What happens when prison populations are integrated after decades of being kept apart?

• Oakland mayoral candidate Saied Karamooz on development, jobs, and housing
• East Oakland: East memories
• John Carlos on his iconic act of civil disobedience