In 1977, LeVar Burton was a 19-year-old theater student with no on-camera experience when he auditioned for a TV project called Roots. The role was Kunta Kinte a young man stolen from Africa who refused to lose his identity. Burton didn’t know it would change history. ABC expected the series to fail. Instead, over eight nights, more than 130 million Americans watched. Families gathered. Conversations began. For the first time, television showed the human cost of slavery through dignity, not sile
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