Randall Robinson, founder and president emeritus of TransAfrica, talks about his life, career, and body of work. Mr. Robinson is distinguished scholar in residence at The Dickinson School of Law at Penn State. He received humanitarian awards from UNICEF, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Congressional Black Caucus, among others. During the interview he responded to telephone calls and electronic communications.
Mr. Robinson has written five non-fiction books: Defending the Spirit: A Black Life in America; The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks; The Reckoning: What Blacks Owe to Each Other; Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native Land; An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President. He has also written the novel Makeda.