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should be offered to African Americans as a means to redress centuries of de jure and de facto discrimination and oppression directed at the group. The book argues for the enactment of lineage-based reparation programs as restitution for the continued social and economic issues in the
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in 1977, which according to its mission statement serves as a "major research, educational and organizing institution for the African-American community, offering constructive analysis concerning U.S. policy as it affects Africa and the
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Randall Robinson and Hazel Ross-Robinson, his wife of 37 years at the time of his death, had one daughter, Khalea Ross Robinson. He had a daughter Anike Robinson, and a son, Jabari Robinson, from a previous marriage.
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Robinson's decision to emigrate was caused by what he described as his antipathy towards America's domestic policies and foreign policy, both of which he believed exploit minorities and the poor.
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African-American community, such as a high proportion of incarcerated black citizens and the differential in cumulative wealth between white and black Americans.
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Robinson died on March 24, 2023, in St. Kitts, the birthplace of his wife, where the couple had lived for twenty-two years. The cause of death was
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During that period he gained visibility for his political activism, organizing sit-ins at the South African embassy in order to protest the
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in order to protest what he viewed as discriminatory trade policies aimed at Caribbean nations, such as protective
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in the Caribbean and Latin America." He served in the capacity as TransAfrica's president until 2001.
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Randall Robinson on "An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President"
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In 2001, Robinson quit his position as head of TransAfrica and emigrated to
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An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President
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Review of Randall Robinson, Alex Dupuy, and Peter Hallward books on Haiti
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Robinson and Hazel Ross-Robinson returning from the inauguration of
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Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man From His Native Land
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Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from his Native Land
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Saint Kitts and Nevis people of African American descent
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Recipients of the Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo
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In 2003, Robinson turned down an honorary degree from
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government's racial policy of discrimination against
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Index

Randall Robinson (cinematographer)
Randall Robinson (cricketer)

Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Richmond, Virginia
St. Kitts
Norfolk State College
Virginia Union University
B.A.
Sociology
Harvard Law School
J.D.
Dickinson School of Law
Penn State University
Max Robinson
randallrobinson.com
law.psu.edu/faculty/robinson
TransAfrica
apartheid
Haitian immigrants
Haitian president
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Saint Kitts
Richmond, Virginia
Max Robinson
Virginia Union University
J.D.
Harvard Law School
Boston
U.S. Congressman

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