This is a fascinating interview from the New Yorker Out Loud about African immigrants in China and the impact of that - intermarriage etc. They also mention that one of the them - married to a Chinese women - is Obama's half brother.
Program: New Yorker
Date: February, 2009
From a show that NPR has canceled - Day to Day - the story of the Tijuana art scene and a gallery in a former drug tunnel.
Producer: Jason Beaubien
Program: Day to Day
Playtime: 4 minutes 39 seconds
Date: February, 2009
Chilling story from Bill Moyers Journal about "right-wing" talk radio.
American Issues, Bad News, Immigration, Politics, Radio, Right Wing Politics
Reuters audio slide show about the life of a transgendered individual in Mexico.
Another amazing installment in the One in Eight Million slide show series.
Connor Walsh alerts us to this BBC doc about the mother of President Barack Obama. Ann Dunham is described as a globe trotting "peacnik." She studied archaeology and anthropology of agricultural blacksmiths. She got grants from the Ford Foundation and loans from the World Bank and worked to help rural people get loans to start small businesses.
Playtime: 22 minutes 26 seconds
Date: September, 2009
The successful struggle of an immigrant doctor to the town of Twillingate, New Foundland. Dr. Mohamed Iqbal Ravalia is profiled delightfully by the CBC.
– Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 19 minutes 15 seconds
Lots in the news about the controversial adoption of Haitian children. AD listener Kevin Bolger sent this really "on-the-ground" personal story from a 25 year-old whose mom really wants a couple Hatian kids.
"brief interview with my friend about a possible change to his family. His mother is considering adopting children from Haiti."