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LeVar Burton Tribute Page
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<h1 class="text-center">LeVar Burton</h1>
<h2 class="text-center">Imagination and Adventure</h2>
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<img class="image" src="https://1ehukb3kd764oddub3rdo4uw-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/fatherly_levar_burton_getting_kids_into_reading.jpg">
<div class="caption" id="bio"><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeVar_Burton"><b>Levardis Robert Martyn "LeVar" Burton Jr</b>. </a>(born February 16, 1957) is an American actor, presenter, director and author. He is best known for his roles as the host of the long-running PBS children's series Reading Rainbow, Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation and the young Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning ABC television miniseries Roots. He has also directed a number of television episodes for various iterations of Star Trek, among other programs.</p></div>
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<h3 class="text-center">Notable Roles</h3>
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<h4>Film</h4>
<ul>
<li>(1984) The Jesse Owens Story</li>
<li>(1994) Star Trek: Generations</li>
<li>(1996) Star Trek: First Contact</li>
<li>(1998) Star Trek: Insurrection</li>
<li>(2002) Star Trek:Nemesis</li>
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<div class="col-xs-6" id="tv">
<h4>Television</h4>
<ul>
<li>(1977) Roots</li>
<li>(1983-2006) Reading Rainbow</li>
<li>(1987-1994) Star Trek: The Next Generation</li>
</ul>
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// type: "GET",
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// async: false,
// dataType: "jsonp",
// success: function (data, textStatus, jqXHR) {
// var markup = data.parse.text["*"];
// var blurb = $('<div></div>').html(markup);
// $('#bio').html($(blurb).find('p'));
// console.log(data);
// },
// error: function (errorMessage) {
// }
// });
// });
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<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
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text-align: center;
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