It took as a point of departure the belief that the freedom of African Americans is bound up with the “emancipation of all African people.” As such, TransAfrica's mission was to serve as a “major research, education and organizing institution for the African-American community, offering constructive analysis concerning U.S. Once one of the largest African American human rights and social justice organizations, TransAfrica was founded on a vision where Africans and people of African descent are equal participants in the global world order. Robinson became a household name after the organization he founded in 1977, TransAfrica, spearheaded public protests against South African apartheid in front of the South African embassies in the early 1980s, helping to give voice to the international anti-apartheid movement. In his many obituaries, he will be remembered as a “human rights advocate, author, and law professor,” as well as “founder of TransAfrica,” and author of The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks. On March 24, 2023, Randall Robinson died at the age of 81. Remembering Randall Robinson: Black internationalist, anti-imperialist, and friend of Haiti.
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