LeVar Burton
American actor
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| 2025 | Wil Wheaton launches 'It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton' podcast after receiving Burton's blessing, inspired by Burton's podcast format. |
| 2024 | LeVar Burton Reads won the Webby Award for Best Art and Culture Podcast for the second consecutive year, continuing to be recognized for its outstanding quality. |
| 2024 | While on the show Finding Your Roots, Burton discovered that he has a white, Confederate great-great-grandfather and a Black great-great-grandfather, Hal B. Burton, who was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives. |
| 2024 | LeVar Burton will be recognized as the Changemaker of the Year at the 9th Shorty Impact Awards. |
| 2024 | LeVar Burton is set to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Saturn Awards for his contributions as part of the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation. |
| October 2024 | Burton appeared as the host of the Trivial Pursuit television game show broadcast on The CW network. |
| May 6 2024 | LeVar Burton concludes his podcast 'LeVar Burton Reads' by reading 'The Toynbee Convector' by Ray Bradbury as the final story, followed by a farewell message encouraging listeners to continue reading and imagining. |
| 2023 | LeVar Burton Reads won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Podcast, highlighting its cultural significance and impact. |
| 2023 | LeVar Burton reprised his role as Geordi La Forge in the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard. |
| 2023 | Burton's podcast, LeVar Burton Reads, won the Webby Award for Best Art and Culture Podcast, which he accepted with a five-word speech: 'Be a better person. Read.' |
| 2023 | Burton was awarded the Common Wealth Awards of Distinguished Service for his commitment to public service. |
| 2023 | LeVar Burton received the National Humanities Medal for his work in literacy. |
| 2023 | LeVar Burton launched a second podcast for children called Sound Detectives. |
| 2022 | LeVar Burton was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Children's and Family Emmys. |
| 2021 | LeVar Burton authored 'A Kids Book About Imagination'. |
| July 26 2021 | Burton served as a guest host on 'Jeopardy!' for several episodes from July 26 to July 30. |
| 2020 | LeVar Burton Reads won the Ignyte Award for Best Fiction Podcast, recognizing the podcast's excellence in storytelling. |
| 2020 | During the COVID-19 pandemic, Burton continued to read on his podcast and also gave live readings three times a week during a Twitter livestream for various audiences. |
| November 2020 | Burton appeared as himself on 'The Eric Andre Show', referencing a past interview about him. |
| August 2020 | In August, it was announced that Burton would direct Two-Front War, a multi-perspective docuseries focusing on civil rights and Black soldiers in Vietnam. |
| 2019 | Councilmember Larry Carr led the renaming of Richfield Park to LeVar Burton Park in honor of Burton, located in the Meadowview neighborhood near his childhood home. |
| 2017 | Burton faced a lawsuit from WNED-TV for alleged copyright infringement regarding the use of the Reading Rainbow brand in marketing the new iPad app and other online media. |
| 2017 | Burton launched the podcast LeVar Burton Reads, which ran until 2024. |
| 2016 | Burton was one of the five inaugural honorees to the Sacramento Walk of Stars. |
| 2014 | LeVar Burton released 'The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm'. |
| 2014 | Burton had a guest appearance in an introduction section for the 200th episode of 'Achievement Hunter Weekly Update'. |
| May 28 2014 | Burton launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring back Reading Rainbow, aiming to create a web-based program for elementary school classrooms, which raised over $5 million in just three days. |
| 2012 | Burton had a recurring role as Dean Paul Haley on the TNT series 'Perception'. |
| 2012 | LeVar Burton won an Audie Award for Original Work for METAtropolis: Cascadia. |
| 2012 | Burton joined the board of directors for the AIDS Research Alliance, a non-profit medical research organization dedicated to finding a cure for AIDS. |
| 2012 | Burton reimagined Reading Rainbow as an iPad application, which quickly became the number-one educational application within 36 hours of its launch. |
| February 2011 | Burton made an appearance as himself in the NBC sitcom 'Community' during the episode 'Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking'. |
| 2010 | LeVar Burton won Audie Awards for Audiobook of the Year and Multi-Voiced Performance for Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales. |
| 2010 | Burton appeared as the ghost of himself in the episode 'Greene Machine' of 'Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!'. |
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