Fresh Air from WHYY, August 5, 2009

In 1993, a freighter named the Golden Venture went aground off the shore of Queens, New York. Onboard were 300 terrified, half-starved Chinese immigrants from Fujien, a small province in southern China. Author Patrick Radden Keefe writes about the incident and the woman who heads up this underground world of human trafficking in his new book The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream. According to Keefe, immigrants from Fujien have been arriving in New York for more than a decade, altering the character of Chinatown.

The Diane Rehm Show, August 17, 2009 How a sandlot baseball game led a middle-class family to take in five boys from the projects. It's a story of discovery, the true meaning of family, and bridging the racial and socio-economic divide.