Roger L. Green

Roger L. Green, "Democrat, represents the 57th Assembly District - downtown Brooklyn - which includes parts of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights, Flatbush, parts of Park Slope and Bedford-Stuyvesant...

"In 1987, Assemblyman Green authored, and had signed into law, the creation of the New York State Martin Luther King Institute on Nonviolence. This state chartered Institute has responsibility for developing programs that will promote the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the study of civil rights, social history, and the study and practice of nonviolence. Since its creation, the institute has trained more than 1,000 high school and college-aged students in the study and practice of nonviolent social change through its Ella Baker Academy. It has also assisted Assemblyman Green in holding a series of hearings entitled Violence as a Public Health Issue, which has focused public attention on the culture of violence that has hit hardest the children of New York State...

"Assemblyman Green is also the legislative originator of the Center for Law and Social Justice. This advocacy group is affiliated with Medgar Evers College. It was created so that the students of Medgar Evers College and the residents of Central Brooklyn could address topical issues concerning the ongoing struggle for social and economic justice...

"Assemblyman Green is married to Coraminita Mahr and is the father of two children, a son Khalid and a daughter Imani. He spends his spare time writing poetry and writing essays that explore, among other things, the commonalities between diverse people and cultures and the physical, mental and spiritual well being of the world's children."