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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 be ...

LeVar Burton shared his thoughts on the late John Amos during an appearance on ABC’s The View today, praising his Roots costar – they played the enslaved person Kunta Kinte at different points in the ...

In an interview with New York magazine, Roots star LeVar Burton had one simple question about the History Channel’s intended remake of the popular 1970s miniseries: “My initial reaction was, why?” ...

LeVar Burton got hit with a one-two punch while tracing his family’s ancestry on Tuesday’s episode of PBS’ hit series “Finding Your Roots.” Burton rose to fame as a child actor in the TV adaptation of ...

But one of the most touching tributes of all came from LeVar Burton, Amos’ co-star in the hit 1977 mini-series “Roots.” Burton played a young Kunta Kinte, the son of an African warrior who is captured ...

Levar Burton — the host and executive producer behind one of TV’s longest-running children’s programs, “Reading Rainbow” — visited Henry Louis Gates. Jr. for an episode of “Finding Your Roots,” which ...

LeVar Burton has three roles he'll forever be known for: Kunta Kinte on the TV series Roots, Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation and... LeVar Burton has portrayed the Black experience ...