Burton says he is proud to be Stoney’s namesake, and that Stoney embodies the values he’s spent much of his life advocating ...

The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the largest repositories of Black ...

Former Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton has been announced as the host of the National Book Awards, which are set to take place on Wednesday, Nov. 15 in New York City, per Deadline. This ...

And LeVar Burton has done that over and over. He got his big break when he was just 19 years old, starring as Kunta Kinte in the TV miniseries Roots. There had never been a depiction of American ...

Actor LeVar Burton experienced massive success early in life. In a round of Wild Card with Rachel Martin, he says his definition of success has had to change over time. Each week, a well-known ...

Sitting in a booth at a Hollywood coffee shop across from LeVar Burton, there’s no denying the passion in his eyes when he talks about literacy and how reading is not only a tool that unlocks ...

It turns out that LeVar Burton’s passion for literacy comes from a long familial legacy. During a recent appearance on PBS’ “Finding Your Roots,” the actor discovered information about his ...

He left PEOPLE in 2023. LeVar Burton learned a profound lesson last year when he lost out on his dream of being named the new permanent host of Jeopardy! Although he was eager to succeed the late ...

Actor LeVar Burton made an incendiary comment against parental rights group, Moms for Liberty, while hosting the National Book Awards ceremony on Wednesday evening. The former host of the beloved ...

LeVar Burton got hit with a one-two punch while tracing his family's ancestry on the Jan. 16 episode of PBS' hit series "Finding Your Roots." Burton rose to fame as a child actor in the TV ...

Cecily, for her part, explained her frustrations with Burton growing facial hair in between the show's pilot and first season. “We produced the pilot, and LeVar did not have any facial hair ...

LeVar Burton is married to Stephanie Cozart. Cozart and Burton’s paths first crossed on the sets of the latter’s film, Roots: The Gift in 1988. They soon began seeing each other.