Remembering human rights activist, lawyer Randall Robinson

Proliferate human rights activist and lawyer Randall Robinson has passed away. He was 81 years old. Robinson passed away from pneumonia on Friday, March 24 in St. Kitts, where he spent the last years of his life.

As an advocate against South African apartheid, Robinson co-led the Free South Africa Movement that began in the 1980s. A few years earlier, in 1977, Robinson founded the foreign advocacy organization TransAfrica, which promoted diversity and equity in foreign policy. He served as the organization’s president until 2001.

In remembrance of Robinson’s life and legacy, “American Black Journal” reaches into the Detroit Public TV archives to play a clip of Robinson participating in a 1984 televised town hall on The State of Black America.