By Hamil R. Harris From playing the slave, Kunta Kinte, in Roots to playing a crew member on the Enterprise in Star Trek, LeVar Burton is an Emmy award-winning actor who was keynote speaker at Howard University’s 157th Annual Commencement. But, before speaking, Burton couldn’t resist singing a few lines from the inspirational theme song from PBS’s hit children’s program, “Reading Rainbow”, which he hosted for 23 years and also produced: “Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high. Take a look, it’s in a book, a reading rainbow,” sang Burton as he fought back tearful emotions during
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