It is a research, education, and advocacy center for activism related to social, economic and political conditions in Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America and other parts of the African Diaspora.
[1] TransAfrica Forum is a research, education, and advocacy center dedicated to global justice for the African World.
[3] TransAfrica is an educational and organizing center that encourages human interest viewpoints in the U.S. foreign policy arena, and that advocates for justice for the people of Africa and the African Diaspora.
[6][7] A committee consisting of Randall Robinson, Herschelle Challenor, and Willard Johnson are credited with formulating an organizational design and launch.
TransAfrica launched a series of legislative campaigns and strategic media outreach that increased public awareness of South African apartheid and contributed to the global anti-apartheid solidarity movement.
[11] They co-sponsor the annual New African Film Festival in Washington, D.C.[11] TransAfrica was a founding member of the Free South Africa Movement.
On November 21, 1984, a day before the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, Randall Robinson, Congressman Walter Fauntroy and Mary Frances Berry were arrested for a sit-in staged at the South African embassy.
[14] The list of former Directors includes human rights lawyer Nicole Lee[15][14] and labor activist Bill Fletcher Jr.[16]