LeVar Burton
LeVar Burton
Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr., professionally known as LeVar Burton, is an American actor, presenter, director, and author. He is best known for his roles as the young Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning ABC television miniseries Roots, Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and as the host of the long-running PBS children's series Reading Rainbow. He has also directed a number of television episodes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth16 February 1957
CityLandstuhl, Germany
CountryUnited States of America
Yeah. I do. I think that we have to continue to expand the areas in which we want our kids to be literate. And social media's going to be a part of their lives. And why not? Why not give them a sense of what the rules of the road are?
It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done.
It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?
Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.
We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.