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  • Barilles de bomba
    Crosscurrents
    Bomba in the Bay, and a Scary Story from Sudanese Folklore
    Bomba is more than just music. Today, we’ll hear how one of Puerto Rico’s oldest musical traditions lives on in the Bay. Then, we hear a very scary Sudanese folk tale.
  • Calder Storm waves a trans flag over a crowd of counterprotestors at a rally for trans youth outside of a Kaiser Permanente clinic in San Francisco on July 25, 2025.
    Crosscurrents
    Families Facing Hard Choices
    Today, we’ll hear from families facing tough decisions around getting their trans youth gender affirming care. Then, a woman in prison who was gifted a book that changed her.
  • An altar to the goddess Kali.
    KALW Culture
    Kali Puja
    Sandip Roy
    Last week was Diwali, the Indian festival of lights. But Sandip Roy grew up with the Goddess Kali.
  • Sunni Khalid and Daniel Zoughbie
    Crosscurrents
    Going Back in Time to Understand the Future
    Today, a UC Berkeley historian explores 80 years of US policy in the Middle East. Then, a story on how intense loyalty destroyed a close relationship.
  • A view out of a car in traffic on I-80 West at an interchange toward San Francisco and Oakland
    Crosscurrents
    Day of the Dead Marigolds, and a Transportation Update
    Today, we meet a florist who grows the marigolds used for "Dia de Los Muertos” And, an update on Bay Area roadways and Freeways. Plus, some poetry to help us through.