Lesra martin biography of christopher

Lesra Martin was poor, illiterate and struggling on the violent streets of Brooklyn when a chance encounter with a group of Canadians shattered the confines....

{ The Journey }

Faces Behind the Windows: Life in the Inner City

Childhood dreams didn’t exist in Lesra Martin’s world, a place where day to day survival was a grim reality.

Born in 1963, he was the second eldest son out of Earl and Alma Martin’s eight children.

Lesra Martin was once an inner city kid dismissed by society; he rose from a poorly educated Brooklyn teen to a highly respected attorney.

Meet the racial justice champion, @UofT alum, and inspiration for the film, The Hurricane, at this year's #UofTReunion.

Lesra Martin was poor, illiterate and struggling on the violent streets of Brooklyn when a chance encounter with a group of Canadians shattered the confines.

Nack's story focused on Carter's relationship with Lesra Martin, a Brooklyn teen taken in by the Canadians to be homeschooled.

The film depicts Carter's arrest, his life in prison, and how he was freed by the love and compassion of a teenager from Brooklyn named Lesra Martin and his.

Although the family was poor, his parents managed to instill in him a sense of responsibility and hard work.

But his father’s ill health, his parents’ drinking problems, and a series of family misfortunes eventually pushed the Martins from a comfortable, middle class life in Queens on to welfare, and the dangerous, nightmare streets of Bushwick.

By age 10, Lesra’s family depended on his job bagging groceries to buy food.

At 11, the malnourished kid with the toothy, ragged grin was working in a bar, sweeping floors and saving his tips to buy extra rice and beans for his siblings. Life was a relentless day-to-day struggle, a balance between hope and despair. Gang life literally consu