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American Black Journal

Remembering human rights activist, lawyer Randall Robinson

Proliferate human rights activist and lawyer Randall Robinson has passed away. He was 81 years old. In remembrance of the late Randall Robinson, “American Black Journal” reaches into the Detroit Public TV archives to play a clip of Robinson participating in a 1984 televised town hall on The State of Black America.

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