Anti-apartheid activist Randall Robinson, a lawyer, novelist and founder of the influential lobbying group TransAfrica, has died at the age of 81, family members confirmed this week.
Randall Robinson, who as founding executive director of TransAfrica, a high-profile lobbying organization in Washington, helped reshape U.S. foreign policy toward apartheid South Africa and once conducted a 27-day hunger strike to bring attention to the suffering of Haitian refugees, died March 24 in St. Kitts, the island in the West Indies. He was 81.