Finding Your Roots
Levar Burton Reflects Proudly on "Reading Rainbow"
Levar Burton cites hosting and producing "Reading Rainbow" as his proudest achievement.
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Finding Your Roots
Levar Burton Reflects Proudly on "Reading Rainbow"
Clip: Season 10 Episode 3 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Levar Burton cites hosting and producing "Reading Rainbow" as his proudest achievement.
When asked, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "What are you proudest of?", Levar Burton replied, "...It's gotta be Reading Rainbow... Believing so much in the power of education, as we do in my family, and having an impact on the reading habits of a couple of generations of human beings, It doesn't get any better than that."
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Finding Your Roots
Levar Burton Reflects Proudly on "Reading Rainbow"
Clip: Season 10 Episode 3 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
When asked, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "What are you proudest of?", Levar Burton replied, "...It's gotta be Reading Rainbow... Believing so much in the power of education, as we do in my family, and having an impact on the reading habits of a couple of generations of human beings, It doesn't get any better than that."
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipLooking back, what are you proudest of?
When I get asked this, it's always, I get a catch in my throat because, um... You would think that "Roots," because of the magnitude of the impact that it's had on the planet.
You know, some 50-plus countries around the world, "Roots" is universally embraced as an important story for humanity.
But it's really "Reading Rainbow."
- Yeah?
- That is, that's the first line of my obituary.
Mm-hmm.
- I think, right?
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.
- "Host and producer of 'Reading Rainbow.'"
A tribute to your mom.
A tribute to my mom and, you know, having...
Believing so much in the power of education as we do in my family, Mm-hmm.
having an impact on the reading habits of a couple of generations of human beings?
It doesn't get any better than that.
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