Date: Thursday, 09 January 2020
Forty two years ago, LeVar Burton played the role of Kunta Kinte in Roots and told the story of racism in America. Today, the actor is continuing to use his art to address matters of race.
As part of his lifelong effort to bridge the gap between races, the 62-year-old went to Twitter on the first day of 2020 and launched a video series titled This is My Story. The series has been uploaded to his Twitter.
"I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the state of race relations in America," Burton wrote on Twitter. "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 … Like ROOTS did so long ago, my intention in sharing these stories is to provide anecdotal context for being Black in America.”
