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LeVar Burton wins National Humanities Medal

LeVar Burton, star of “Roots,” “Reading Rainbow,” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” has won the 2023 National Humanities Medal. In particular, his work on Reading Rainbow” from 1983 to 2006 has solidified his reputation as a strong advocate for literacy.

You will want to watch the video below.

From the NEH website:

“LeVar Burton’s impact as a storyteller spans time and space. At nineteen years old, he became a household name for his Emmy-nominated portrayal of the adolescent Kunta Kinte in the 1977 television miniseries Roots. Ten years later, he navigated the USS Enterprise as Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation. But anyone who attended grade school after 1983, along with their parents, grandparents, teachers, and librarians, know him as LeVar Burton, the magnetic host of the beloved PBS series Reading Rainbow. “

(Picture and Text courtesy of National Endowment for the Humanities)

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