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Officials at Marine Base Quantico said an active-duty Marine shot and killed two, before turning the gun on himself.

Also: The book Goblinproofing One's Chicken Coop wins an award for the oddest title of the year; Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail speaks to NPR; the end of the pronoun "whom."

At the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem, Obama said it was humanity's obligation to act against racism and anti-semitism.

His seminal work played a critical role in establishing post-colonial African literature. Achebe also taught Africana Studies at Brown University.

Also: Cypriot lawmakers debate their country's future solvency; South Korea says China wasn't behind this week's cyberattack; Chicago will close at least 52 elementary schools; and an Ohio prosecutor 'indicts' Punxsutawney Phil for misleading everyone on Groundhog Day about when spring will arrive.

On this week's show, we talk about how crowdfunding might affect the future of television and how it does or doesn't make sense to send comedies into the ring to duke it out.

Chinua Achebe, widely considered the grandfather of modern African literature, has died at the age of 82. His popular book, Things Fall Apart, tackled the effect of colonialism on Africa, and has sold more than 10 million copies. Host Michel Martin is joined by NPR Africa Correspondent Ofeibea Quist-Arcton to look back on his life and work.

The television network's CEO, Richard Plepler, says the company is mulling over a move that could end-run the cable companies.

When this episode of Piano Jazz was recorded in 2006, Krall was seven and a half months pregnant with twins. Hear the pianist and vocalist play "P.S. I Love You" and "Little Girl Blue."

This macho action film starring Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman is a vigilante fantasy about terrorists and turncoats invading the United States. It's a popular genre, but critic David Edelstein says he's tired of the American addiction to these tropes.