Crosscurrents Podcast

• If you live in the Bay Area, it's likely you'll be voting on a cannabis tax this November
• Oakland mayoral candidate Ken Houston on jobs, homelessness, and moving forward
• Bay Area Beats: Dan Kuramoto of Hiroshima

• One year since the fires, a community rebuilds
• Oakland mayoral candidate Nancy Sidebotham on jobs, homelessness, and crime 

• Oakland mayoral candidate Pamela Price on police reform, SCOTUS, and revitalizing downtown
• Wordplay with Maddy “MADlines” Clifford
• Incarcerated men find escape through role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons

• Oakland mayoral candidate Marchon Tatmon on housing, crime, and police reform
• Bay Area Beats: Del the Funky Homosapien

In a special presentation from KALW News, it’s a story from the new podcast 70 Million, an open-source podcast looking at jail and criminal justice reform in communities across the country.

• In fight over Martins Beach, locals just want respect for their prized coastline
• Oakland mayoral candidate Cat Brooks on the homeless crisis, jobs, and illegal dumping
• Uncuffed: Black, Jewish, and incarcerated

• Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf talks housing, arts, and the environment
• San Quentin Radio: Paroled inmates wait up to 150 days for governor’s approval
• Uncuffed: Spoon Jackson keeps writing poetry after 41 years in prison

• San Francisco muralist connects Bay Area residents to Palestinian life
• Oakland mayoral candidate Cedric Troupe on youth, economics, and the environment
• From Uncuffed: Navy vet uses discipline to survive prison

• People’s Open Net is internet for the people, by the people
• Oakland mayoral candidate Jesse Smith on civilian safety, tiny homes, and the tech boom
• Uncuffed: “I really had a love affair with anger . . . personally, I married her"

• What do doctors know about transgender healthcare? Not enough.
• The astonishing resilience of West Oakland's recycling homeless

• Preserving Oakland’s black community with a Black Cultural Zone
• At Alcatraz Alumni reunion, former convicts are rockstars
• The Black Woman is God transforms conventional notions of divinity through art

• Gas tax repeal could also limit future tax increases
• 'Jinn' film explores being young, Black, Muslim and in love
• How a Beatlemaniac busked her way into her own blues band

In a special presentation from KALW News, it’s a story about radical reforms in foster care, from the new podcast 70 Million.

By age 17, over half of young people in foster care have already been convicted of a crime or spent a night in jail. After they age out, a quarter will go to jail or get in trouble with the law within the first two years. California is determined to keep foster youth out of jail.

Snap Judgment's Glynn Washington and Death, Sex, and Money's Anna Sale joined Hana Baba in studios in a public radio smackdown for our membership drive.

• Hey Area: Where is East Oakland? It's more than geography
• Hot Dates: "I'm Supposed to Be Certain" (from Death, Sex, and Money)
• Counted: An Oakland Story (from Snap Judgment)

Rising stars in the Bay’s culinary scene, Preeti Mistry and Reem Assil joined Hana Baba in studios in a local celebrity smackdown for our membership drive.

• A taste of the Bay Area’s long history of chocolate
• From bean to bar: The Bay Area’s chocolate revolution
• A new era in Bay Area food criticism

Greg Sherrell and Heklina joined Hana Baba in studios in a local celebrity smackdown for our membership drive.

• A second line parade brings out the Big Easy in East Oakland
• Rewriting the narrative with author and journalist Vanessa Hua

Liam O'Donoghue and Peter Finch joined Hana Baba in studios in an East Bay v. San Francisco smackdown for our membership drive.

• Training for construction jobs in San Francisco in the midst of a labor shortage
• What does factory-built housing mean for Bay Area trades workers?
• Preview: East Bay Yesterday
• Preview: The Finch Files

• Inside Oakland’s plan to make electric scooters affordable for all
• Calls for change after arrest of man “biking while black”
• Rocking the stage in more than “Wonway”

•  Free-spirited bluegrass musician remembers days riding the rails before his incarceration
• Dance or die: how ballet could save your life in a prison riot
• Coming to terms with his trauma, one man reflects on a war-torn childhood
• R.O.O.T.S. works to heal intergenerational trauma at San Quentin

• Santa Rosa family fights for daughter’s right to to go to kindergarten with her cannabis meds
• CBD—snake oil or panacea?

• Snapshots from the Rise for Climate march
• Green for All's new national director on environmental equity
• Bay Area Beats: Alia Sharrief

• Bay Area colleges and universities struggle to keep students in secure housing
• Actor Don Reed goes back to the 60s for his new one-man show
• Neon soapbox: The politics of Oakland's Grand Lake Theater marquee

• Mosque and community center planned in San Martin waiting for green light
• Santa Clara Police Department has special Notario fraud unit
• Last Labor Day at the Lusty Lady

• Should more Delta water go to fish or farms?
• 50 years of psychedelic art with Lee Conklin

• SFUSD fires up Bayview teachers in hopes they will stick around
• Bay Area Beats: Tajai Massey

• From bear feeding shows to bear-proof designs
• Where do the best learn to fly fish? The Golden Gate Park casting club.

• ICE empties Contra Costa detention center. Now what?
• Street Spirit gets new editor-in-chief

• For teens, vaping is a sleek, discreet way to smoke
• Is it us or is it the video games?
• Where are Asian Americans like me on the big screen?

This is a special edition of Crosscurrents, showcasing the work of students in the San Francisco Unified School District.

• The struggle to relocate after a lifetime in San Francisco
• The history of a hidden castle in Hunters Point
• Discovering my mother’s homeland

This is a special edition of Crosscurrents, showcasing the work of students in the San Francisco Unified School District.

• In a city divided, what can we expect from Mayor London Breed?
• California Speaks: What should we do to improve the news media?
• Buskers of San Francisco: Larry
• Buskers of San Francisco: Cordell