found: Data from CINE for Rebel slaves [MP] 1978:(LeVar Burton; actor)
found: Data from ALA Booklist for Reading rainbow. 1, Tight times [VR] 1983(Le Var Burton)
found: Wikipedia, Apr. 19, 2010(Levardis Robert Martyn Burton, Jr. (born February 16, 1957), professionally known as LeVar Burton, is an American actor, director and author)
found: African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014:(Burton, LeVar, born Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr; stage / screen actor, motion picture producer / director, radio / television producer / director); born 16 February 1957 in Landstuhl, Germany; returned to the United States in Sacramento, California with his mother at the age of three; studied drama at the University of Southern California's School of Theatre; won an Emmy for his performance in Roots; acted and directed in a variety of television projects; was the host of a PBS children's show Reading Rainbow; remembered also for his starring role as Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge on series Star Trek: The Next Generation; published a science fiction novel Aftermath (1997); President Bill Clinton nominated him to the National Commission on Libraries & Information Science (1996))
found: IMDb, June 7, 2022:(LeVar Burton, actor, director, producer ; b. February 16, 1957 in Landstuhl, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
