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Aired: Monday, March 08, 2004
Cover detail, "Quitting America" by Randall Robinson
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African American activist Randall Robinson felt left out of America, where African-Americans make up 50 percent of prisoners but only 12 percent of the population, and where blacks have twice the unemployment rate as whites, and whites have twice the homeownership rate as blacks.
He left in 2001, but still pays close attention to what happens here from his new home, the tiny tropical island of Saint Kitts. And he is dismayed.
Hear a conversation with Randall Robinson on the U.S. foreign policy in Haiti, Africa, and Latin America, and why he has given up on the U.S. |
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Randall Robinson, founder and former president, TransAfrica, which monitors U.S. policy toward Africa. His new book is "Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from his Native Land." He is also author of "The Debt," "The Reckoning," and "Defending the Spirit." |
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Remembering Spalding Gray | Listen
Actor Spalding Gray was confirmed dead today, two months after his wife reported him missing. His body was recovered from the East River near Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He was 62 years old.
A practiced storyteller, Gray became famous for his monologues. Sitting behind a desk with a glass of water and his notebook, he would transform his life experiences into a performed autobiography.
In this radio diary, James Leveratte, a professor in the department of dramaturgy and dramatic criticism at Yale School of Drama and a longtime friend of Spalding Gray, remembers the genius of Spalding Gray's monologues.
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