Hana Baba
News Reporter/Host, CrosscurrentsHana Baba is an award-winning radio journalist and host of "Crosscurrents," the daily newsmagazine on NPR member station KALW Public Radio in San Francisco. She is also co-host/co-producer of The Stoop podcast, telling stories from across the Black Diaspora.
A Sudanese American, she enjoys exploring intersectionality and the richness of diaspora and immigrant community experiences. Her work also appears on NPR, PRI, BBC, and others, and she has interviewed personalities like Levar Burton, Jimmy Carter, Stacey Abrams, David Oyelowo, Uzo Aduba and more.
Hana regularly speaks and consults with communities on how to enter media fields to affect change in current media narratives about African, Arab and Muslim communities. She also teaches radio journalism, is a lecturer of the UC Berkeley Podcast Bootcamp, and is a voice and narration coach.
Her work has won awards by the National Association of Black Journalists , The Goldziher prize, the Religion News Association, the San Francisco Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, she is a Webby honoree and was named a Bay Area African Cultural Icon by the California Legislature.
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Salma Elassal is a renowned singer and percussionist from Sudan who is getting ready for a Berkeley show this weekend. And the show comes at a difficult time for her country. Accompanying Salma is musician and art therapist Mazin Jamal. Hana Baba talked with Mazin in between songs.
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For the past three months, we’ve been airing A Prayer for Salmon. It is a podcast and radio series about the Winnemem Wintu people and their fight to restore salmon on the McCloud River, where their ancestors lived. To mark the end, host Judy Silber speaks with the son of Winnemem Wintu Chief Caleen Sisk.
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A school in Milpitas is talking to kids about violence happening thousands of miles away. We hear how Bay Area families are feeling about the war in Sudan.
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Dr. Farzana Saleem sees young people of color grappling with mental health issues that often get minimized or ignored. Now she wants schools to address the problem of racial stress and trauma.
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On Saturday, members of the Sudanese community held a rally in front of San Francisco's City Hall to express their reaction to deadly clashes ravaging their home country.
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Dacher Keltner's a psychology professor at UC Berkeley, co-director of the Greater Good Science Center. And he says awe and wonder are emotions our bodies need to experience regularly. Whether it’s from a caterpillar on a leaf, or pondering the cosmos.
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San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora now has a "cultural critic" to curate events and programs that "explore film, scholarship, visual art and pop culture."
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Lauren Schiller is an award winning radio host and journalist is out with a new book, “It’s a Good Day to Change the World.” Lauren and her producer and co-author Hadley Dynak talk about womanhood today, the inflection point we’re at right now and how they stay hopeful.
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Today, we meet the new chief of the UC Berkeley Police — Yogananda Pittman. She talks about policing at a university campus and as a Black woman.
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The Palestinian Feminist Collective is a group that’s defining feminism on its own terms. Cofounder Maisa Morrar talks about their definition and how healing women is a core part of their work.