Race/Related: How a Haven for the Gambian Community Became a Deathtrap

How a Bronx building became a kind of homeland-in-exile for Gambians fleeing dictatorship and poverty. [View in browser](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRjxTxwP4QoAWh0dHBzOi8vbWVzc2FnaW5nLWN1c3RvbS1uZXdzbGV0dGVycy5ueXRpbWVzLmNvbS90ZW1wbGF0ZS9vYWt2Mj9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zNyZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ycl8yMDIyMDExNSZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD01MDQyNSZubD1yYWNlJTJGcmVsYXRlZCZwcm9kdWN0Q29kZT1SUiZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9Nzk4NDMmdGU9MSZ1cmk9bnl0JTNBJTJGJTJGbmV3c2xldHRlciUyRmY5NTczYzQ3LWI2ZGYtNTM4Ny04N2NlLTAyYzM4MjQ5ZjAzNyZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmHfcLfiYSdK1FZSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~)|[nytimes.com](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRjxTxwP0SwaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTM3JmVtYz1lZGl0X3JyXzIwMjIwMTE1Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTUwNDI1Jm5sPXJhY2UlMkZyZWxhdGVkJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD03OTg0MyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKYd9wt-JhJ0rUVlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA)[Continue reading the main story](#a11y-skip-ad-marquee) ~/AAAAAQA~/RgRjxTxwP0RtaHR0cHM6Ly9saXZlaW50ZW50Lm5ld3lvcmt0aW1lc2luZm8uY29tL2NsaWNrP3M9MjA3NTgwJmxpPVJSJm09YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDcmcD1SUl8yMDIyMDExNVcDbnl0Qgph33C34mEnStRWUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~ [More Race/Related](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRjxTxwP0S-aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vc3BvdGxpZ2h0L3JhY2U_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MzcmZW1jPWVkaXRfcnJfMjAyMjAxMTUmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9NTA0MjUmbmw9cmFjZSUyRnJlbGF0ZWQmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTc5ODQzJnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0Qgph33C34mEnStRWUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~) January 15, 2022 The Twin Parks North West apartments is a landmark for the West African community in Mew York.Seth Wenig/Associated Press The Broken Heart of New York’s Gambian Community [Author Headshot](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRjxTxwP0TLaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vYnkva2ltaWtvLWRlLWZyZXl0YXMtdGFtdXJhP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTM3JmVtYz1lZGl0X3JyXzIwMjIwMTE1Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTUwNDI1Jm5sPXJhY2UlMkZyZWxhdGVkJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD03OTg0MyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKYd9wt-JhJ0rUVlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) By [Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRjxTxwP0TLaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vYnkva2ltaWtvLWRlLWZyZXl0YXMtdGFtdXJhP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTM3JmVtYz1lZGl0X3JyXzIwMjIwMTE1Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTUwNDI1Jm5sPXJhY2UlMkZyZWxhdGVkJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD03OTg0MyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKYd9wt-JhJ0rUVlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) When Abdoulie Touray, then a 41-year-old Gambian diamond trader, settled in the Bronx in the 1970s, the area was blighted by crime and the West African community was tiny. There were no restaurants serving okra stew, no funeral parlors providing proper Islamic rites and no nearby mosques. An erudite Islamic scholar by night, Mr. Touray moved into a third-floor apartment in a new 19-story building known as Twin Parks North West. Soon, he was offering a place to stay, food, contacts for jobs and the occasional verse from the Quran to newcomers from his homeland. Virtually overnight, an entire community sprouted around him. And the building became a kind of homeland-in-exile for Gambians fleeing oppressive dictatorship and crushing poverty. Visitors to Mr. Touray’s apartment later became tenants of the building at 333 East 181st Street. A dozen mosques opened. Hair braiding salons popped up, as did supermarkets selling varieties of fufu, bottles of Vimto, a soft drink popular in West Africa, and canned eggplant. Twin Parks North West gained a new nickname: Touray Tower. Then on Sunday, in just minutes, what had been a haven for many Gambians quickly turned into a deathtrap, as smoke from a fire killed 17 people, including eight children. “This community has grown to what it is today because of that building, and that is why it’s very special to us,” said Haji Dukuray, 60, who arrived in 1988 to study business administration, with a single suitcase and knowing just one address, the one in the Bronx. “When they said on the news, ‘Fire at 333—,’ I said, ‘It’s the Touray Tower!’” Nearly all the victims were of Gambian or of West African descent. There were the Drammehs — Fatoumata and her three children. There were the Dukurays, Hajie and Haja and their three children. There was Fatoumata Tunkara and her 6-year-old son, Omar Jambang. The Touray family knew nearly all of the victims. Several were their cousins. The Touray family had grown since the patriarch first arrived on the scene — his 20th grandchild was born in 2021. [Continue reading the main story](#a11y-skip-0) ADVERTISEMENT ~/AAAAAQA~/RgRjxTxwP0RtaHR0cHM6Ly9saXZlaW50ZW50Lm5ld3lvcmt0aW1lc2luZm8uY29tL2NsaWNrP3M9MTc0MTQ5JmxpPVJSJm09YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDcmcD1SUl8yMDIyMDExNVcDbnl0Qgph33C34mEnStRWUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~ Although Mr. Touray died in 2019 at age 81 of heart failure, about 50 members of the immediate and extended family were living in the building at the time of the fire, according to one of his sons, Suleyman Touray, and Mariama Touray, who is married to one of his nephews. Following the norms of his culture and religion, Mr. Touray had three Islamic-law wives who still lived in the apartment on the third floor. Two of his widows were placed in hotels; the third had been visiting Gambia at the time of the fire. Born in Sotuma Sere, a village in Eastern Gambia, Mr. Touray moved to the country through a program for young democrats, his daughter Fatiah Touray, 38, said. Mr. Touray was well-traveled and spoke at least nine languages — English, French, Arabic, Soninke, Mandingo, Fulani, Wolof, Lingala and Sierra Leonean Creole. On arriving in the United States, he started a nonprofit called the Pan-African Islamic Society out of his apartment and offered Islamic services to celebrities such as Muhammad Ali and Cicely Tyson, according to family members. “He realized that there was no real place where West Africans could get their proper funeral rites as Muslims, and he was really instrumental in getting that started for the Muslim community,” said Magundo Touray, 41, one of his daughters. [Continue reading the main story](#a11y-skip-1) ADVERTISEMENT ~/AAAAAQA~/RgRjxTxwP0RtaHR0cHM6Ly9saXZlaW50ZW50Lm5ld3lvcmt0aW1lc2luZm8uY29tL2NsaWNrP3M9MjA3NTc3JmxpPVJSJm09YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDcmcD1SUl8yMDIyMDExNVcDbnl0Qgph33C34mEnStRWUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~ “If someone got arrested and they didn’t speak a language, the 46th Precinct always used to knock on our door and say, like, ‘Hey, Mister, we got someone that’s lost. Maybe you can help us.’” Gita Sankano grew up in a nearby building but spent much of her childhood visiting or being babysat by relatives there. “We all knew 3G,” Mr. Touray’s apartment, she said. “When my mother came to the U.S. she stayed at 3G. My naming ceremony was in 3G. It is our own village. That’s how deep it is. It’s our own community. This is a tragedy for the whole Gambian community.” Read the rest of the story [here](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRjxTxwP0TvaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMi8wMS8xMi9ueXJlZ2lvbi9nYW1iaWFuLXJlc2lkZW50cy1icm9ueC1hcGFydG1lbnQtZmlyZS5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTM3JmVtYz1lZGl0X3JyXzIwMjIwMTE1Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTUwNDI1Jm5sPXJhY2UlMkZyZWxhdGVkJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD03OTg0MyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKYd9wt-JhJ0rUVlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA). Dartmouth Students Lily Ren, left, & Maanasi ShynoLauren O'Neil for The New York Times The Fight for Asian American Studies [Author Headshot](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRjxTxwP0TFaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vYnkvYW5uYS1wLWthbWJoYW1wYXR5P2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTM3JmVtYz1lZGl0X3JyXzIwMjIwMTE1Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTUwNDI1Jm5sPXJhY2UlMkZyZWxhdGVkJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD03OTg0MyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKYd9wt-JhJ0rUVlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) By [Anna P. Kambhampaty](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRjxTxwP0TFaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vYnkvYW5uYS1wLWthbWJoYW1wYXR5P2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTM3JmVtYz1lZGl0X3JyXzIwMjIwMTE1Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTUwNDI1Jm5sPXJhY2UlMkZyZWxhdGVkJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD03OTg0MyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKYd9wt-JhJ0rUVlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) Styles Reporter [Continue reading the main story](#a11y-skip-2) ADVERTISEMENT ~/AAAAAQA~/RgRjxTxwP0RtaHR0cHM6Ly9saXZlaW50ZW50Lm5ld3lvcmt0aW1lc2luZm8uY29tL2NsaWNrP3M9NzI4Njk5JmxpPVJSJm09YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDcmcD1SUl8yMDIyMDExNVcDbnl0Qgph33C34mEnStRWUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~ On a Saturday afternoon in September, the kind of day most college students would spend sprawled on a quad, soaking up the moments that still feel like summer, the Dartmouth Asian American Student Collective was getting organized. Its members had gathered to finalize a mission statement and a petition to circulate across campus. Their goal? Persuade the administration of Dartmouth College to create an Asian American studies program. Lily Ren, who led the meeting with her classmate Maanasi Shyno, said that taking classes that centered Asian American experiences at Dartmouth helped her better understand her own identity. “Because I was so transformed by these classes, I thought: How many other students didn’t have the opportunity to also learn so much, just because there were so few of them offered and you couldn’t major or minor in it?” she said in an interview in November. In the group’s [statement](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRjxTxwP4QqAWh0dHBzOi8vZG9jcy5nb29nbGUuY29tL2RvY3VtZW50L3UvMS9kL2UvMlBBQ1gtMXZSZEl5NndGaTB6a2tweTNCTmt4U1ZEbHNSd0k1Slh5WTRzVDlSWlYwU3E1Qk1HUTRuX1NRdlRYTU9HRkd1RWx5Z1Ztbkt1VXlOSl9RUEEvcHViP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTM3JmVtYz1lZGl0X3JyXzIwMjIwMTE1Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTUwNDI1Jm5sPXJhY2UlMkZyZWxhdGVkJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD03OTg0MyZ0ZT0xJnVycD1nbWFpbF9saW5rJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKYd9wt-JhJ0rUVlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA), which was released in October with the petition, its members outline why they believe such a program is necessary today, citing widespread incidents of [anti-Asian racism](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRjxTxwP0TdaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMS8wMy8xOS91cy9hbnRpLWFzaWFuLXJhY2lzbS1wYW5kZW1pYy5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTM3JmVtYz1lZGl0X3JyXzIwMjIwMTE1Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTUwNDI1Jm5sPXJhY2UlMkZyZWxhdGVkJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD03OTg0MyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKYd9wt-JhJ0rUVlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) and [violence](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRjxTxwP0TeaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMS8wMy8xOC91cy9hc2lhbi1iaWFzLWF0bGFudGEtc2hvb3RpbmcuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zNyZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ycl8yMDIyMDExNSZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD01MDQyNSZubD1yYWNlJTJGcmVsYXRlZCZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9Nzk4NDMmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmHfcLfiYSdK1FZSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~). To date, the group has collected nearly 1,200 signatures from students, parents and faculty. The fight for Asian American studies at Dartmouth dates back several decades and is part of a larger academic movement that began in the 1960s. Though there have been minor victories at Dartmouth — new classes, new hires — change has been incremental, and a full program has yet to be formalized. But this time could be different. After all, Asian American studies programs have often come into being during times of social unrest and change, as a result of student activism. Decades of Activism at Dartmouth Ms. Shyno and Ms. Ren, both 20 and double majors in sociology and gender studies, were not always student activists. In April, however, they were attending a virtual town hall with Asian American alumni and faculty when, halfway through, someone asked who was leading the student movement at Dartmouth today. The response was a long silence, they said. “All the students working on this prior burned out or graduated, which is unfortunately what happens with student movements,” Ms. Shyno said. “That’s when we decided that we could be the ones to start it up again.” The Dartmouth Asian Pacific American Alumni Association has compiled a history of such activism in a [timeline](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRjxTxwP0TyaHR0cHM6Ly9kYXBhYWEuZGFydG1vdXRoLm9yZy9zLzEzNTMvY2x1YnMtY2xhc3NlczE1L2luZGV4LmFzcHg_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MzcmZW1jPWVkaXRfcnJfMjAyMjAxMTUmZ2lkPTI4OCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD01MDQyNSZubD1yYWNlJTJGcmVsYXRlZCZwZ2lkPTI0OTg1JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD03OTg0MyZzaWQ9MTM1MyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKYd9wt-JhJ0rUVlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) that dates back to 1979. The timeline also refers to peer institutions, like Cornell University, which started the [first Asian American studies program in the Ivy League](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRjxTxwP0TBaHR0cHM6Ly9hc2lhbmFtZXJpY2Fuc3R1ZGllcy5jb3JuZWxsLmVkdS8_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MzcmZW1jPWVkaXRfcnJfMjAyMjAxMTUmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9NTA0MjUmbmw9cmFjZSUyRnJlbGF0ZWQmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTc5ODQzJnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0Qgph33C34mEnStRWUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~) in 1987, and Northwestern University, which introduced its own program in 1999 — a few years after [students participated in a nearly monthlong hunger strike](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRjxTxwP0TXaHR0cHM6Ly9hc2lhbmFtZXJpY2FuLm5vcnRod2VzdGVybi5lZHUvYWJvdXQvaGlzdG9yeS9pbmRleC5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTM3JmVtYz1lZGl0X3JyXzIwMjIwMTE1Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTUwNDI1Jm5sPXJhY2UlMkZyZWxhdGVkJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD03OTg0MyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKYd9wt-JhJ0rUVlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA), in which they refused to eat meals. In 2001, seven Dartmouth professors [proposed](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRjxTxwP0TeaHR0cHM6Ly9kcml2ZS5nb29nbGUuY29tL2ZpbGUvZC8xZ2l6S3U2d1NwaVhwV2JGWFBhdFltM19tcFUzYndZaWEvdmlldz9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zNyZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ycl8yMDIyMDExNSZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD01MDQyNSZubD1yYWNlJTJGcmVsYXRlZCZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9Nzk4NDMmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmHfcLfiYSdK1FZSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~) a list of initiatives, including an Asian American studies minor and a building to serve as a centralized hub for related programs. At the same time, the issue was gaining attention among students. 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