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Generated by VeryPDF RSS to Email SubscriptionAmerican killed in Mali worked to improve global health
21 November 2015, 7:48 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As a Peace Corps volunteer, expert in global health and the mother of a 7-year-old boy, Anita Ashok Datar devoted her life to caring for and helping others, her family said. Datar, of Takoma Park, Maryland, was one of at least 19 people killed in Friday's terror attack on a hotel in Mali, the State Department confirmed in a statement. No other U.S. citizens were believed to have died in the attack, carried out by heavily armed Islamic extremists at a Radisson hotel in the Malian capital of Bamako. "We are devastated that Anita is gone," her family said in a statement issued through the State Department. "It's unbelievable to us that she has been killed in this senseless act of violence and terrorism." Datar, 41, was a senior manager at Palladium Group, an international development organization with offices in Washington, her family said. As a public health expert, she focused on family planning and HIV issues, work that
took her to Africa often in the past 15 years. She also worked in Asia and South America, according to her LinkedIn profile. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was among those mourning her death. "Anita Datar was a bright light who gave help and hope to people in need around the world," Clinton said in a statement on Saturday. "Anita represented the best of America's generous spirit." Datar was the former partner of David Garten, an attorney who worked as a senior policy adviser to Clinton in the Senate. "Everything she did in her life she did to help others - as a mother, public health expert, daughter, sister and friend," the family statement said. "And while we are angry and saddened that she has been killed, we know that she would want to promote education and healthcare to prevent violence and poverty at home and abroad, not intolerance." The family said that of all her accomplishments, Datar was "most proud of her son." Her Facebook
page is filled with pictures of the boy. Born in Massachusetts, Datar grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Rutgers, her family said. She worked in Senegal with the Peace Corps for more than two years and earned master's degrees in public health and public administration from Columbia. In addition to her son, parents and a brother, she is survived by "many, many friends around the world," the statement said. Clinton said Datar's death should strengthen Americans' will to fight terrorism and radical jihadism. "We face a choice between fear and resolve," she said. "Anita's murder should deepen our resolve. America must lead the world to meet this threat." --- This story has been corrected to show that the official toll from the attack is 19 victims dead, rather than 20.

Town saddened by girl's slaying seeks 'Justice for Gabbi'
21 November 2015, 7:24 pm
SCOTTSVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Pink ribbons and balloons decorate a town saddened by the slaying of a 7-year-old girl, and a sign reads "Justice for Gabbi." But no one is certain Scottsville, a peaceful community of 5,000, will ever be the same. Kentucky State Police arrested Timothy Madden, 38, of Scottsville, on Friday and charged him with murder, kidnapping, first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy. The arrest came six days after Gabriella Doolin disappeared during a football game and was found dead less than a half-hour later in a creek. The arrest warrant said she died of manual strangulation and drowning. "In a small, rural community like ours, you read about those things happening, but you don't ever imagine them happening in your hometown," Allen County Judge-Executive Johnny Hobdy said Friday. Just before a news conference Friday at the state police post in Bowling Green, Madden was taken in handcuffs to a squad car. A reporter asked
if he had anything to say, and Madden replied, "I'm innocent." Madden's arraignment is scheduled for Monday afternoon in Allen District Court in Scottsville, according to the court docket. Innocent is a word townspeople might have used once to describe Scottsville, a rural town near the Tennessee state line. "It's changed everybody's mindset," Chris Carter, who has four children, said of Gabbi's killing. Carter went away to college but returned to raise his family in the quiet community where he grew up. "Those days are changed," he said. "The real world has come here." At the Doolins' white-frame home outside Scottsville, several vehicles were parked in the yard Friday afternoon. A trampoline was set up in the backyard, a basketball goal in the front, and a cat and kittens were on the front step. A woman answering the door declined to comment and asked a reporter to leave. The girl's father had harsh words about the suspect on his Facebook page posted
Friday. "This animal should not be walking and breathing," Brian Doolin wrote. Madden was being held in the Barren County jail on $1 million bond. State police post commander Capt. John Clark would not release any other details about Madden, citing the ongoing investigation. The police citation in the case said Madden's DNA collected during the investigation matched that recovered from the child during the autopsy. Gabbi, as she was called, was reported missing about 7:40 p.m. on Nov. 14 by her mother while they were at a football game at Allen County-Scottsville High School in south-central Kentucky. Her body was found about 25 minutes later in a creek in a wooded area behind the school. The girl was playing with other children during the game, state police Trooper B.J. Eaton said. The creek where her body was found was just a few hundred yards from the football field. Doolin's funeral was held Thursday at Scottsville Baptist Church. Members of the
Scottsville community lined the streets holding pink and blue balloons to release as the hearse carrying her body drove by. Hobdy said people in Scottsville were mourning with the family. "This whole community shared in the grief and will for a long time to come," he said. Carter, whose two boys and two girls range in age from 1 to 16, said he has already changed his approach to parenting and has become more cautious. "I don't let my kids out anymore without me being right there with them," he said Friday afternoon while picking up one of his daughters from school. Kathy Saylors, picking up her granddaughter from school Friday afternoon, said she expects more precautions to be taken for children as a result of Gabbi's death. Her 8-year-old grandson rode the school bus with Gabbi and told Saylors he was scared after Gabbi was killed. "You take things for granted that nothing's going to happen," she said. "But now that it's hit home, it'll be different.
Allen County will never be the same."

Ta-Nehisi Coates On His Work And The Painful Process Of Getting Conscious
21 November 2015, 7:02 pm






Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks onstage at the 2015 New Yorker Festival last month.



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It has been quite a year for journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates: All of which has taken place at a time when this country has been deeply engaged in questions about race. Coates spoke with All Things Considered's Michel Martin by phone just as he was about to return to Paris, where he and his family have been living for the past few months. Interview Highlights About dedicating his National Book Award to Prince Jones I met him at Howard University. We were friends — not best of friends, but we were friends — and he was killed in 2000 by a Prince George's County police officer who followed him from Prince George's County through Washington into Virginia and shot him mere yards from his fiance's home.... When Prince died, nothing happened. Nothing happened. The officer was not punished by his department, he wasn't prosecuted. ... And I had a young son at the time, and so it really, really bothered me — I'd always been aware
about what could happen to me, but I was very, really very much worried about my son. And so for 15 years I just stewed on this. And it really, really bothered me that people did not remember this young man's name. He just did not deserve to die the way he died, and it was completely forgotten....


There are two burdens of racism in this country. The first is the actual burden — you know, sort of socioeconomics that we see all the time, wealth gap, life expectancy, death rate, those sorts of things. But then there's another portion of this that folks ask you to accept, and that is the notion that somehow this is not really tied to our long history — really our 250-year, almost 400-year history — of policy directed toward African-Americans. That somehow this is our fault, or partly our fault.... Between The World And Me is my complete rejection of that idea. It may well be our responsibility, but it certainly is not our fault. Prince Jones bears no fault in how he was killed. None. Absolutely none. He was not just killed by the officer, he was killed by the heritage of this country, which has for centuries dealt in the criminalization of black folks. And that allowed for the presumption that the son of a radiologist, a Howard University
student with a daughter who had just been born, about to be married — that this man was somehow a criminal. It allowed for police officers to track him through three municipalities and kill him. I just won't say that that was okay. I won't write that off as a mistake. About the popularity and impact of his work There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people. But I don't draw the conclusion that it's, say, a critical mass of Americans who will go forth and create some sort of long-term policy. I would like that to be true — that'd be beautiful — but I don't think one should confuse the book-buying audience, the audience that reads The Atlantic, with the entire country. It's a big country. About how he writes I try to be as direct as I possibly can. I don't attempt to
make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort. The process of getting conscious for me was a very, very uncomfortable, disturbing and sometimes physically painful process. And so that's the standard to which I write, because it was what I've experienced over my time. ... You take a work like, a book like Between The World And Me. As I said, I've been thinking about that for 15 years. Reparations and stuff I've done for The Atlantic mag, these are projects that I've really had — they come from living in the society and thinking and reading about things for a period of time. ... I just went on this long thing about Prince, but see, I spent like years researching what happened in that case, you know what I mean? I talked to his mother, I met Prince's, his daughter, I've met his sister ... I knew Prince. Even as I sound strident in my rhetoric, it's actually rooted on having
actually done some reporting around it. On if he feels there's pressure for him to be a sort of oracle of race I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about. And some of that has to do with black folks — black experience is big and it's nuanced and it's broad, and no one person should be the spokesperson for that experience, or no one person should be the oracle or be the articulator. And as I've told young people around the country, they should be skeptical of people who attempt to appoint themselves as that. I don't want that job at all. I think you have a number of talented African-American writers — some young, some more experienced — who've done just brilliant work. Work that I've frankly depended on in my own writing. [Writers] who I think, taken together, can give us some sense of the nuance and the texture of the black experience. But you don't really want to
get that from one person's work, and you certainly don't want to get it from one book. On whether he still fasts on Thanksgiving No! No, no! Although in recent years I've been thinking about bringing it back. My dad, he preferred to use Thanksgiving as a day of reflection. And the main thing we had to reflect on was what had happened to the Native Americans, happened to the land that we live on now. And we would actually think about that. And I hated it when I was a kid — absolutely, absolutely hated it. And then I stopped doing it as I got older. And then I had a family and I stopped doing it then, because I thought family traditions were very important. But as my son has gotten older — he's 15 now — and looking at my own work, and how important history and reflection and memory is in my own work, I don't know that it was such a bad idea. So I've often thought about going back to it. On his father's reaction to his writing This goes
back to the first book — my rule has always been that he should understand what I'm doing before I do it. Because our relationship, to him and my mom, is way more important than any book. And so he's seen everything before it actually came out. With the first book I told him what was going to be in there before I even wrote it, and asked him, was he cool with it? He said yeah, and I showed it to him. ... He read the second book too. He had changes, but none of the changes were about him. They were about things that he thought could make the book better. He's always been very, very firm in the notion that it's my story.




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