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Weekend Edition Saturday once again features summer readings from the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, held at the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, Conn. The festival's 11th year continues with "Charles by Accident" by Wesley McNair.

Caucasians are no longer a majority in California or Los Angeles. Scott Simon talks with a group of white Angelinos about their perceptions of what happened 10 years ago. He then visits a group of journalism students and their teacher at Phineas Banning High School in the Wilmington neighborhood of south Los Angeles. The hour concludes with an essay by Scott Simon.

Her sister's hospitalization for depression sent Virginia Gonzales Torres on a mission to reform her country's mental health system. Some 25 years later, she's founded a series of group homes and set the standard for how developing countries can treat the mentally ill. NPR's Joanne Silberner reports.

The owner of Windows on the World, which drew diners to the top of the World Trade Center, is set to open a new restaurant in Times Square. Many former Windows employees will work at Noche, but others are bitter that they weren't hired, NPR's Madeleine Brand reports.

Jockey Jimmy Winkfield was the last African American to win the Kentucky Derby, 100 years ago this year. For Weekend Edition Saturday, NPR's Howard Berkes reports on Winkfield's legacy and the history of African Americans in horseracing.

Turns out Ray Magliozzi of Car Talk has a secret passion for bonsai and magnolias in addition to carburetors and exhaust systems. On Morning Edition Ketzel Levine of Talking Plants takes us on a tour of Ray's Massachusetts garden. Hear excerpts of their rainy-day conversation and view a collection of photos online.

In the close-knit village of Oakwood, Ohio (population 742), residents are reeling from a financial scandal involving one of their own -- a banker who is accused of embezzling tens of millions of dollars. All Things Considered host Robert Siegel visited Oakwood, and reports on the community's crisis of trust.

Fifty years ago, Folkways Records released a six-album set of recordings that had a profound influence on the folk music revival and later on rock music. Morning Edition has the story of Harry Smith's The Anthology of American Folk Music. NPR Online offers a selection of songs from the collection.

Senate debate begins this week on ways to add a prescription drug benefit to Medicare. Fifteen years ago, Congress passed such a measure, only to repeal it a year later under a storm of criticism. NPR's Julie Rovner reports for Morning Edition.

At age 16, Carla the parrot has cut her first record, "I'm a Green Chicken," co-written by the bird, is a duet with music producer Skip Haynes, who talks with Scott Simon about the interspecies collaboration.