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Biography of Randall Robinson
Name: Randall Robinson
Birth Date: July 6, 1941
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Richmond, Virginia
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: activist, author
Randall Robinson
Randall Robinson (born 1941) is an internationally recognized author and foreign policy activist. In 1977, he founded TransAfrica--a lobbying group dedicated to promoting "enlightened and progressive" U.S. foreign policy toward countries in Africa and the Caribbean. As president of TransAfrica, Robinson led the U.S. campaign to bring democracy to South Africa, putting an end to that county's apartheid policies.BeginningsRandall Robinson, the son of Maxie Robinson and his wife Doris, was born on July 6, 1941, in Richmond, Virginia. He spent the first 15 years of his life in a ground-floor flat in the African American section of Richmond. Maxie Robinson taught history by day and coached athletics in the evening, while Doris was a full-time homemaker. Robinson's parents were both college graduates. 26-year-old Maxie Robinson and 18-year-old Doris Jones had met in Richmond, Virginia, at Virginia Union University. Doris was attending the school as preparation for a teaching career. Maxie was …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…Magazine Awards Show, the Martin Luther King Center for Non-Violent Change, the NAACP, and the Ebony Magazine Awards Show. He has also been named ABC-News Person of the Week. Robinson has appeared on ABC's Nightline, CBS's 60 Minutes, NBC's Today Show, CNN, C-Span, and other American television programs.Robinson is the author of three books, Defending the Spirit, The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks, and The Reckoning: What Blacks Owe to Each Other. He has begun work on a fourth book, about the past and ongoing impact of U.S. foreign policy on English-speaking nations in the Caribbean. He makes his home on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts with his wife and daughter. Further Reading Robinson, Randall, Defending the Spirit: A Black Life in America, Dutton, 1998."Fighting the good fight," Black Issues in Higher Education, November 8, 2001."Randall and Hazel Robinson: what's love got to do with it?" Essence, February 1991.
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