Randall Robinson was an American lawyer, author and activist best known for his Anti-Apartheid stance and for championing the payment of reparations for the descendants of slaves. Robinson attended Norfolk State College on a basketball scholarship and subsequently graduated from Harvard Law School. After graduation he became a civil rights attorney in Boston before working for U.S. Congressman Bill Clay in 1975 and as administrative assistant to Congressman Charles Diggs the following year. In ... moreRandall Robinson was an American lawyer, author and activist best known for his Anti-Apartheid stance and for championing the payment of reparations for the descendants of slaves. Robinson attended Norfolk State College on a basketball scholarship and subsequently graduated from Harvard Law School. After graduation he became a civil rights attorney in Boston before working for U.S. Congressman Bill Clay in 1975 and as administrative assistant to Congressman Charles Diggs the following year. In 1977 he founded the, TransAfrica Forum an advocacy organization that sought to influence the foreign policy of the United States concerning African and Caribbean countries. Robinson was involved in sit-ins, hunger strikes and other protests as the president of the lobbying and research organization TransAfrica, as a founder of the Free South Africa Movement and on behalf of Haitian refugees. In 2001, he authored the book The Debt: What America Owes To Black's. Soon after he emigrated to St. Kitts with his wife because of his antipathy towards America's domestic policies and foreign policy, both of which he believed exploit minorities and the poor.
