Black History Month: LeVar Burton

LeVar Burton has been an actor and director for over 5 decades. He is known for Roots, Reading Rainbow, and Geordi La Forge on Star Trek, giving a well-rounded and nuanced portrayal of a main character with a disability. He is an advocate for children’s literacy and speaks out against banned books.

Photo by Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons


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