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‘Butterfly in the Sky’: LeVar Burton talks about new documentary on ‘Reading Rainbow’
Burton’s Kunta Kinte, to this day, is a character that lives in the hearts and minds of many people across the world. “‘Roots’ taught me about the power of the meaning of television ...
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[Opinion] Prepare to Cry: LeVar Burton on the Passing of His 'Roots' co-star, John Amos
Burton played a young Kunta Kinte, the son of an African warrior who is captured, sold to a slave trader and brought to ...
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The five Black governors who came before Maryland's Wes Moore
Within blocks of the residence is a statue of Kunta Kinte, an enslaved African brought to Annapolis in 1767 and made famous by author Alex Haley; the William Paca House, the former mansion of a ...