Actor, director, producer and author LeVar Burton has done a lot in his career. From playing the iconic “Kunta Kinte” in the TV series Roots or being cast as a Lieutenant on the long-running Star Trek: The Next Generation, Burton is most proud of Reading Rainbow, a remarkable show that encouraged children to read–and did so very well. He was host and executive producer of Reading Rainbow from 1983 to 2009, when the show won more than 200 broadcast awards, including a Peabody and 26 Emmys.
Today, Reading Rainbow is more popular than ever. Since copurchasing the rights to the franchise after the show’s cancellation in 2009, Burton, 57, has been on a mission to make it bigger and better in the digital space.
Two years ago, he and his business partner Mark Wolfe re-imagined the TV show as a tablet app, which has since been downloaded more than a million times. Now, they’re creating a Web version.
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