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Take a Look, It's in a MasterClass Book—LeVar Burton's Storytelling Rainbow!
LeVar Burton joins MasterClass to teach 'The Power of Storytelling,' referencing his own career journey.
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Levar Burton Is a Living Legend and It’s About Time We Give Him His Things
As The Root’s Staff Entertainment Writer Tonja Renée Stidhum made you aware of last week, the good folks over at Jeopardy! finally got a clue and set the date for Levar Burton to guest host. Whether that had a little (or a lot) to do with the online harassment petition to bring him on remains…
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'Take a Look'…at the Upcoming Guest Hosts of Jeopardy!—LeVar Burton and Robin Roberts!
Finally, it’s happening to us right in front of our faces! If you recall correctly, after tragically losing our beloved Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek—and it was confirmed that the game show series would continue—difficult discussion began around who would make a formidable host to take the torch forward. Back in November of last year, fans…
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Fans Want LeVar Burton to Read a Rainbow of Jeopardy! Clues as Possible Replacement Host
I’ll be honest—it’s pretty damn surreal to even be writing about this. As you may know by now, Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek died at the age of 80 on Nov. 8, after battling stage four pancreatic cancer. Any time feels “too soon” to be talking about a replacement host for the beloved game show, yet…
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30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 15: Cameo, 'Word Up!'
One day, Cameo will get the documentary they truly deserve. One trip through their video archives makes want to know everything about the group possible. Sure, Larry Blackmon is the most recognizable because he was the front-man and lead vocalist (I struggled with putting singer here), but the whole band was really out there. Seriously,…
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LeVar Burton Wants to Give Us a Live-Streamed Version of His Podcast. Legal Issues Present Challenge
If you were a child at any point between 1983 and 2006 and Reading Rainbow wasn’t instrumental in kicking off your educational experience, did you even have a childhood? To some, that question may seem to be mired in hyperbole, but to those of us who were raised on the series, its presenter, LeVar Burton…
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LeVar Burton Is a National Treasure, so How Dare Trump Voters Confuse Him With LaVar Ball?
I cannot believe that I live in an America where there are people who don’t know LeVar Burton. He’s only the man who taught every child born during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s how to read through the miraculous gift of the PBS show Reading Rainbow! Can anyone else say that? As if teaching the…
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LeVar Burton Is Being Sued by a Public Broadcasting Station Over Reading Rainbow
In today’s episode of Black People Can’t Have a Damn Thing, Not Even if We Played a Major Role in Building It From the Ground Up, actor LeVar Burton is being personally sued by a Buffalo, N.Y., public broadcasting station that wants to stop him from using a Reading Rainbow catchphrase on his new podcast.…