Emmy Award-winning actor LeVar Burton shares fond memories of performing scenes from “Roots” with the late Louis Gossett Jr., who died at the age of 87, according to a statement from his family.
After he was in the running to host Jeopardy!, LeVar Burton has found a new gig. The Emmy Award winner, 67, has officially signed on to host and executive produce The CW's upcoming revival of the ...
LeVar Burton is about to get his trivia on! A new report from TMZ citing “network sources” reveals that the beloved Reading Rainbow host has secured his next project: hosting Trivial Pursuit ...
most acclaimed, earning over 200 awards including multiple Emmys and a Peabody. As a lifelong literacy advocate, Burton has dedicated decades to encouraging children to read. In 2017, long ...
Actor LeVar Burton decried the Adams administration’s budget cuts to the city’s public library systems Tuesday and urged New Yorkers to sign a petition calling for the spending reductions to ...
Reading Rainbow was launched, setting the stage for it to become the most successful PBS children’s series in television ...
Following an introduction by DGA Board Member LeVar Burton and a screening of all the nominated works, 2008 DGA Commercial Award Nominees Peter Thwaites and Fredrik Bond joined moderator Robert ...
Colman Domingo, LeVar Burton, ... (1982) as Gunnery Sgt. Emil Foley which he won an Academy Award for in the best supporting actor category. He was the second Black man to win an acting Oscar, ...
‘Read the books they don’t want you to,’ urged the beloved ‘Reading Rainbow’ host in a skit for ‘The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.’ This was the question Burton himself answered in a ...
Whether you’re on the hunt for a book to console you, move you profoundly, or make you laugh, consider a recommendation from ...
There has long been a divide on how to teach children to read. That's despite the mountain of evidence showing that most students need systematic, direct instruction on letters and sounds to ...
Apr. 22—The award-winning documentary "Butterfly in the Sky," spotlighting the beloved, Emmy Award-winning PBS children's show "Reading Rainbow," will be screened Sunday, April 28 at The Neon in ...