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LeVar Burton to Lead 2023 Banned Books Week [October 1–7, 2023] as Honorary Chair | Banned Books Week (bannedbooksweek.org)

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[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Perfect representative.

I wonder how many places banned the Reading Rainbow because it mentions rainbows?

[-] Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

... and reading

[-] drailin@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

I am seeing him give a talk at my University on the 5th! I am stoked since I was raised on RR and like Star Trek, and my fiancée is a huge trekkie, so it is gonna be awesome.

[-] Huxleywaswrite@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Remember to just get the signed picture, never meet your heroes 😉

[-] HububBub@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

A real American treasure. Burton 2024!

[-] LetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

The whole Enterprise crew please.

[-] agentshags@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

take a look, they banned a book, now Jeordis pissed off

[-] Maeve@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Swoon

Thanks op

[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hell yeah!

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ49vc-aCXo

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