Robinson began teaching at the Dickinson School of Law at Penn State University in the fall of 2008. In 2003, Robinson turned down an honorary degree from Georgetown University Law Center. The book argues for the enactment of lineage-based reparation programs as restitution for the continued social and economic issues in the African-American community, such as a high proportion of incarcerated black citizens and the differential in cumulative wealth between white and black Americans. In 2001, he authored the book The Debt: What America Owes To Blacks, which presented an in-depth outline regarding his belief that wide-scale reparations should be offered to African Americans as a means to redress centuries of de jure and de facto discrimination and oppression directed at the group. ĭuring that period he gained visibility for his political activism, organizing sit-ins at the South African embassy in order to protest the Afrikaner government's racial policy of discrimination against black South Africans, beginning a personal hunger strike aimed at pressuring the United States government into restoring Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power after the short-lived coup by General Raoul Cédras, and dumping crates filled with bananas onto the steps of the United States Office of the Trade Representative in order to protest what he viewed as discriminatory trade policies aimed at Caribbean nations, such as protective tariffs and import quotas.

policy as it affects Africa and the African Diaspora in the Caribbean and Latin America.' He served in the capacity as TransAfrica's president until 2001. Robinson founded the TransAfrica Forum in 1977, which according to its mission statement serves as a 'major research, educational and organizing institution for the African-American community, offering constructive analysis concerning U.S.

Congressman Bill Clay (1975) and as administrative assistant to Congressman Charles Diggs (1976). Robinson was a civil rights attorney in Boston (1971–75) before he worked for U.S. Both sisters live and work in the Washington, D.C.

He also had an older sister, actress Jewel Robinson, and a younger sister, Pastor Jean Robinson. Randall Robinson graduated from Virginia Union University, and earned a J.D. The late ABC News anchorman, Max Robinson, was his elder brother. Robinson was born in Richmond, Virginia, on July 6, 1941, to Maxie Cleveland Robinson and Doris Robinson Griffin, both teachers. Due to his frustration with American society, Robinson emigrated to Saint Kitts in 2001. He was known particularly for his impassioned opposition to apartheid, and for his advocacy on behalf of Haitian immigrants and Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Randall Robinson (J– March 24, 2023) was an American lawyer, author and activist, noted as the founder of TransAfrica.

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