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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.
Conservatives are lifting their culture-war playbook straight from the '70s in pursuit of a new national majority.
The 1990s saw several Republican-initiated welfare-reform proposals gain little traction. But some progress was being made on the local level, where most people still saw hope for real, personal change.
The survival of our republic depends on transforming America's culture.