Randal Robinson:
One of the finest intellectuals
America has produced

Randall Robinson was the founder of TransAfrica, the first organization to lobby for the interests of African and Caribbean peoples and to influence foreign policy, especially in the area of disinvestment in South Africa.

Randall overcame many disadvantages to rise from poor childhood in the segregated South to Washington politics. He took his degrees from Virginia Union University and Harvard Law School. At Harvard Robinson discovered what bagels were, but Harvard seemed far removed from the interests and issues of African-Americans.

In 1977, he started TransAfrica with two people in a one-room organization. It grew to a national lobbying organization with more than 15, 000 members and international influence. It was the galvanizing voice for the anti-apartheid boycott of South Africa, it helped secure the release of Nelson Mandela, and it fought to reinstate President Aristide and restore democracy in Haiti.

Robinson has written a number of book on the debt America owes to African Americans, the debt we owe ourselves, books discusing politics and American history.

He is a lecturer and has appeared on most of the serious intellectual forums in this nation. He is one of the most brillant and eloquent intellectuals in this nation. "Impassioned, charismatic, and unwavering in his convictions, Randall Robinson emerges as an inspiring and empowering example of a great American leader of our time."

Earlier this year Robinson retired from TransAfrica and is now writing books, lecturing, and he lives in the Bahamas. He represents the finest of intellectuals America has to offer to the world. See more