LeVar Burton @levarburton Twitter profile

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

25 days

It was an absolute feast working with Fish… #bydhttmwfi #Clipped @hulu

Naima Cochrane

@naima

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Levar Burton on reminding people that he's quietly one of the realest 🥷🏾's breathing

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

4 years

Don’t f*ck with me today, people. Today is not the day!

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

2 years

I said what I meant and I meant what I said!

The View

@TheView

2 years

On the push to ban some children’s books, @levarburton tells #TheView , “I’ll be absolutely candid and honest. It’s embarrassing that we are banning books in this country; in this culture; in this day and age.” “Read the books they’re banning. That’s where the good stuff is!”

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

4 years

Not a single shot fired. Must be nice.

shannon sharpe

@ShannonSharpe

4 years

Is this noncompliance? We were told, noncompliance is a death sentence. I need an explanation.

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

3 years

Happy Friday, y’all!

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

3 years

I have said many times over these past weeks that no matter the outcome, I’ve won. The outpouring of love and support from family, friends, and fans alike has been incredible! If love is the ultimate blessing and I believe that it is, I am truly blessed beyond measure. 🙏🏾

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

3 years

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New York Post

@nypost

3 years

'Reading Rainbow' legend Levar Burton wants to host 'Jeopardy!'

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

3 years

Don’t get it twisted!

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

3 years

THANK YOU... to all y’all for your passionate support! I am overjoyed, excited, and eager to be guest-hosting Jeopardy!, and will do my utmost best to live up to your faith you in me. YOU MADE A DIFFERENCE! Go ahead and take my word for it, this time.

Jeopardy!

@Jeopardy

3 years

We can finally tell you! Here is the final group of guest hosts to close out Season 37: • Robin Roberts • George Stephanopoulos • David Faber • Joe Buck • LeVar Burton!

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

3 years

Happy Birthday, Fred! He would have been 93years old today... #bydhttmwfi

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

2 years

I remember when I believed that character, integrity and reasonable degree of truthfulness were prerequisite for becoming a United States, Senator. I miss those days.

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

4 years

Even if nothing comes from it, I can’t tell how much how I appreciate all y’alls love and support! 🙏🏾♥️ Petition · Make LeVar Burton the next host of Jeopardy! ·

296,565 people signed and won this petition

Make LeVar Burton the next host of Jeopardy!

www.change.org

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

3 years

I post this every year. It makes me very happy! #bydhttmwfi

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

4 years

I want to live in a country where Colin Kaepernick is seen as a hero and Kyle Rittenhouse is seen as a terrorist.

George Takei

@GeorgeTakei

4 years

I want to live in a country where Colin Kaepernick is seen as a hero and Kyle Rittenhouse is seen as a terrorist.

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

4 years

Dear White America, As difficult and disturbing as it is to see police officers using violent and excessive force to subdue peaceful protesters, do NOT look away! If these images make your blood boil... welcome to the struggle. Sincerely, Kunta

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

2 years

I have not seen the video. Those who love me most have urged me not to. One of the truths playing Kunta Kinte taught me is that the dehumanization of Black people was necessary to the success of our enslavement.

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

2 years

Y’all, @nichelleisuhuru . Heartbroken at the news of her passing, however, I am comforted in the knowledge that she illuminated the way for so of us many with her grace, beauty, talent, intelligence and her commitment to humanity going boldly to the stars! #godess #queen 🙏🏾♥️🌹🖖🏾

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

3 years

Happy Sunday to all y’all who grew up on the show! 🙏🏾

Old School 80s

@OldSchool80s

3 years

June 6, 1983: The Reading Rainbow debuted on PBS. #80s @levarburton Ran 21 seasons & 155 episodes.

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

4 years

True reconciliation and healing can only come as a result of justice being served.

Calvin Wong Tze Loon 黃子倫 🇲🇾

@ithayla

4 years

I'm certain @levarburton would agree

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

2 years

To all of the verified Twitter Blue vigilantes who feel duty bound to educate me about: a) Africans enslaving other Africans. b) Black on Black crime in America, or c) How my privilege makes me somehow less Black. Please f*ck all the way off!

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

1 year

💜🙏🏾💜

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

2 years

Happy February, y’all… and remember, Black History IS American history, no matter how committed some are to erasing it!

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

2 years

Kunta is in the House, y’all!!! #bydhttmwfi #1600Pennsylvania

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

2 years

You don’t reach this point without the help of a lot of people. Thank you family, friends and fans for a lifetime of stories and storytelling. I am honored. #bydhttmwfi

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

3 years

Wishing a most Happy Birthday to the one and only ⁦ @SirPatStew ⁩!

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

2 years

Whoa…😲 LeVar Burton to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at 2022 Emmys

LeVar Burton to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at 2022 Emmys

Burton is set to be honored at this year’s first annual Children’s & Family Emmy Awards.

www.theroot.com

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

3 years

Y’all, with the passing of #BettyWhite we have lost one of the best humans ever!

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

2 years

Such a night!

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

5 years

Today my granddaughter, Sierra, graduated from high school. Isn’t she lovely???

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

4 years

What a way to begin my day...🙏🏾♥️✊🏾😁 Oh, and good morning y’all!

Non-Ironically T.V.'s B. Dave Walters

@BDaveWalters

4 years

Shout out to @levarburton friend to all mankind.

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

4 years

Happy Birthday, Patrick! You are and always will be, in my estimation, as cool as cucumber soup.

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

2 years

What makes these Con weekends so great is hanging with folks I really like and don’t get to see as often as I’d enjoy. Always good to see @TheCarlWeathers !

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

2 months

Words of the day; bleach, blond, bad, built, butch and body… #bydhttmwfi

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

3 years

Tell me again there are not two kinds justice in America!

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

3 years

Sometimes we f*ck around and find out. #bydhttmwfi

Staci D Kramer

@sdkstl

3 years

You never know when the person you're tweeting about is paying attention.

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

19 days

Happy Thursday, y’all!

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

1 year

Backyard barbecue with the crew… #bydhttmwfi

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

4 months

One of the best to ever do it! Thank you, Lou… for everything! 💜🙏🏾💜

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LeVar Burton

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5 years

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

3 years

I had to come all the way to Central Park in New York to finally get a hug!

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

3 years

29 years ago today ⁦ @StephanieCozart ⁩ and I jumped the broom. Spoiler alert: They lived happily ever after… ♥️🥂♥️

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LeVar Burton

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1 year

Happy Star Wars Day, y’all!

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

2 years

I just met Joni Mitchell, y’all and my heart is still racing! I can’t explain to you how much her music has enhanced my soul!

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

1 year

I’m not crying, y’all are crying! 😭 #bydhttmwfi

Mica Burton

@MicaBurton

1 year

Okay but this is the first time I’m seeing a shot of me and my dad next to each other in uniform 😭🖖🏽💛🖤 @levarburton 📸: Paramount+

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

2 years

Please, tell me where this is. 💜🙏🏾

Dan 🟧

@danieltyree

2 years

@JEKS_NC putting the finishing touches on the @levarburton portion of his mural.

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

3 years

Hey y’all, this is happening!

LeVar Burton to Host ‘Trivial Pursuit’ Game Show in Development at eOne

LeVar Burton is set to host a game show version of the classic trivia game "Trivial Pursuit," which is currently in development at eOne

variety.com

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

3 years

Happy Saturday y’all, but only to those who believe in equal justice for all!

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

2 years

My brother, @questlove just won an @Grammy for, #SummerofSoul for which he won an Oscar last Sunday. Who’s having a better week than him…? (hint) Nobody!

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

3 years

So grateful and humbled. Thank you everyone for this opportunity of a lifetime. Thank you to the folks at Jeopardy! and the Sony team and to the contestants. What a week!

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

2 years

Happy Canada Day to our neighbors to the north who luckily still live in a nation that believes in women’s reproductive rights! #HappyCanadaDay

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

2 years

Mornin, y’all! 30 years ago today I jumped the broom with my beloved, @StephanieCozart , and it has turned out to be the finest decision of my life and although I didn’t know it then, the other folks in the photo would become indispensable members of my family! ♥️🙏🏾♥️ #bydhttmwfi

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

2 years

Angry friends!

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

3 years

I said it and I stand by it... #bydhttmwfi

Justice Dominguez 🥥🌴💙

@justicedeveraux

3 years

. @levarburton : “In terms of cancel culture, I think it’s misnamed. I think we have a consequence culture and consequences are finally encompassing everybody.” #TheView

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

7 months

Happy Thursday to everyone, except Nikki Haley!

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

3 years

Leaving this here in the event the powers that be are listening...

296,564 people signed and won this petition

Make LeVar Burton the next host of Jeopardy!

www.change.org

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

2 years

Happy Sunday, y’all! This morning, I feel like I am taking the first step toward recovering from the impact these past six years have had on me.

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

2 years

This is what 65 looks like. #bydhttmwfi photo credit: @StephanieCozart

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3 years

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

2 years

Whether we deserve her or not, I’m exceedingly glad she loves us! 🙏🏾♥️🙏🏾

Goodable

@Goodable

2 years

Breaking Good News Alert: Dolly Parton's Dollywood Parks & Resorts has announced it will pay all tuition costs, fees, and books for employees who pursue higher education. It includes all part-time, full-time, and seasonal employees from day one on the job. ♥️🎶

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LeVar Burton

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7 years

Slavery, the Holocaust, the Movement for Civil Rights...this moment is but another in a chain of opportunities to choose what you stand for.

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LeVar Burton

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3 years

My new gig... #bydhttmwfi

Ryan Reynolds

@VancityReynolds

3 years

Officially starting the @levarburton for literally everything campaign…

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LeVar Burton

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4 years

#ROOTS was my first professional audition. I was a 19 year old Theater major, @USC when I played Kunta Kinte.

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LeVar Burton

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2 years

Ban willful ignorance, not books! #ReadBannedBooks

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4 years

A Covid compliant, socially distanced and masked observation of the 80th Birthday of a legend and a friend. #bydhttmwfi

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LeVar Burton

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2 years

Because, none of us can be free until all of us are free… #juneteenth

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LeVar Burton

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2 years

Stepping out grown folks style with the wife, @StephanieCozart , for the first time in a minute. We’re headed to the DGA Awards.

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LeVar Burton

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4 years

An hour past curfew and 15 arrests... 15???

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LeVar Burton

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5 years

Here’s what we’re NOT going to do! We are not going to equate these impeachment proceedings with kidnapping, mutilation and murder, motivated by white supremacist’s privilege to engage in acts of terror against Black people with impunity from justice!

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LeVar Burton

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Happy 31st Anniversary to my beloved, @StephanieCozart ! 31 years wed, 35 years together. In truth, my longest sustained relationship before we started dating lasted one year. This woman taught me what love looks like.

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LeVar Burton

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2 years

Everyone’s favorite @MarkHamill is the best sport in the galaxy! #bydhttmwfi #StarWarsDay

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LeVar Burton

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3 years

My elder sister @lettybgood is in the house. We haven’t been together for damn near 2 years! #Family

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3 years

At the end of the day Trek is about the family you find along the way!

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LeVar Burton

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4 years

...and I hope I never do!

long time no seal

@HNSeal2

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@levarburton Not to be dramatic but I’m pretty sure LeVar Burton is the only public figure alive that I can recall watching as a child that hasn’t let me down🤓🌈📚 #SundayThoughts #justsaying

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LeVar Burton

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We met during my first 5 minutes in show business. He was always gracious and giving. He have me a cat once from a litter his cat had. For years I had a black manx cat I had named, Regis!

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

5 years

I rest my case...

What The F*** Facts

@WhatTheFFacts

5 years

People who read books live an average of almost 2 years longer than those who do not read at all, a Yale research found.

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LeVar Burton

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5 years

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the state of race relations in America. One thing I learned from the success of ROOTS (if you don’t know, you better ask somebody) 42 years ago, was the power of storytelling as a way to bridge the gap between races.

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LeVar Burton

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3 years

On earth or in heaven I could not have had a better Mother!

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#bydhttmwfi

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LeVar Burton

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3 years

The good news is that I’m working. The crazy news is that I’m working in Hawai’i… #bydhttmwfi

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LeVar Burton

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3 years

Still blows my mind! My hometown did this 2 years ago today. #sacramentoproud #bydhttmwfi

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LeVar Burton

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4 years

I see your hate... and raise you one love!🙏🏾♥️✊🏾

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LeVar Burton

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4 years

When it comes to PPE and airplanes, Kunta don’t play!

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LeVar Burton

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2 years

#ReadBannedBooks

Voters of Tomorrow

@VotersTomorrow

2 years

NEW: Kids are picking up free copies of banned books outside the Texas State Capitol. #MarchForEducation

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LeVar Burton

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2 years

Please join me in wishing a most Happy Birthday to my twin ⁦ @BrentSpiner ⁩!

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LeVar Burton

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1 year

Read the indictment! It’ll take you 10-15 minutes. Certainly you can spare 15 minutes!

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3 months

Never gets old!!! Thanks @MarkHamill 💜🙏🏾

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#NewProfilePic

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Not everyday the @nytimes devotes this much ink (pixels) to you. 😎🤣

LeVar Burton’s Quest to Succeed Alex Trebek (Published 2021)

“ ‘Jeopardy!’ is a cultural touchstone, and for a Black man to occupy that podium is significant.”

www.nytimes.com

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LeVar Burton

@levarburton

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LeVar Burton replaces Drew Barrymore as National Book Awards host : NPR

LeVar Burton to replace Drew Barrymore as host of National Book Awards

Barrymore was originally set to host American literature's glitziest night, until she announced her talk show would be returning during the Writers Guild strike.

www.npr.org

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LeVar Burton

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4 years

I’ll say it again!

LeVar Burton

@levarburton

4 years

True reconciliation and healing can only come as a result of justice being served.

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6 years

May LaForge be with you, y’all...

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4 years

FTR - It is not “training” that causes a cop to put a 6yr old girl-child, facedown on asphalt, with weapon drawn, no less; it is the ability to de-humanize the person in front of you. You must divorce yourself from reality. #BlackLivesMatter

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LeVar Burton

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2 years

I CAN FINALLY TALK ABOUT IT!

Star Trek on Paramount+

@StarTrekOnPPlus

2 years

The mission continues. See who is joining the cast of #StarTrekPicard Season 3!

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LeVar Burton

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3 years

Moisturized and unbothered is my new mantra! #bydhttmwfi

CarmenTS🐝🇺🇸

@CarmenTS

3 years

Just look at @LevarBurton living life moisturized and unbothered... 😍😍😍😍

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LeVar Burton

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4 years

THIS FRIDAY, APRIL 4th, it begins right here on @twitter

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LeVar Burton

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2 years

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there and a shout out to single moms doing double duty!

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LeVar Burton

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4 years

Remember who you are. Remember why you’re here. Behave accordingly! 🙏🏾💜

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LeVar Burton

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1 year

Good morning, to everyone… except Missouri House Republicans. This bullshit has to stop!!!

Missouri House Republicans vote to defund libraries

Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries, in a proposed $45.6 billion state budget that will soon move to a vote in the GOP-controlled state Senate.

heartlandsignal.com

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These are the moments that I live for... #bydhttmwfi 💜

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