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Wikipedia Summary for LeVar Burton
Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957) is an American actor, director, and children's television host. He is known for his roles as Kunta Kinte in the ABC miniseries Roots (1977), Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994), and as host of the PBS Kids educational television series Reading Rainbow for more than 23 years (1983–2006), for which he has received 12 Daytime Emmy Awards, and a Peabody Award as host and executive producer of the show.
His other roles include Cap Jackson in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), Donald Lang in Dummy (1979), Tommy Price in The Hunter (1980), which earned him an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture, and Martin Luther King Jr. in Ali (2001). Burton received the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album at the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards for his narration of the book The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. In 1990, he was honored for his achievements in television with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Burton was chosen as the Grand Marshal of the 2022 Rose Parade in Pasadena, California, on October 5, 2021. He will preside over the parade and the afternoon Rose Bowl Game on January 1, 2022.
Jim Carrey can do anything he wants, right? There are guys like that. I'm not one of those guys, so my career has been cobbled together with what the universe has put in front of me.
Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.
It takes just as much energy to be an asshole as it does to be kind.
For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book.
I've always been the sort of guy who's happiest doing more than one thing at a time.
I feel like I have been able to notice throughout the incremental march of history during the course of my own lifetime patterns emerging, and there's a sort of a rubber band effect that happens where social growth and change is concerned.
Kids are sponges. They will emulate what they see and what they're exposed to.
That's not a role you prepare for. There's no preparation. You don't have time to prepare for the reading of an audiobook. You do the reading of an audiobook in basically two days' time -- an unabridged version, maybe three days.
With the technology of tablet computers, if we bring the right content to them and distribute them ubiquitously throughout the land, we can do something about America being ranked 29th in the world in terms of our level of education.
After many years of training myself, strong emotions are now a trigger for me to look at something. I think that all emotions are triggers for us to grow in our level of consciousness.
We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.
It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done.
I have always been a fan of 'Star Trek.' I love Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future.
This wired generation is kind of cool.
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.
The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.
I'm excited to see how current and future technologies revolutionize the way we learn.
I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.
It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.
We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.
I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.
I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.
All literature is political.
It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?
There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.
I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.
Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.
As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.
We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life -- our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.
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?
And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal -- to pound this message home. Now is the time.
I fly my geek flag proudly. Absolutely.
Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.
If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.