Finding Your Roots | Levar Burton Reflects Proudly on "Reading Rainbow" | Season 10 | Episode 3

Looking back, what are you proudest of?

When I get asked this, it's always, I get a catch in my throat because, um... You would think that "Roots," because of the magnitude of the impact that it's had on the planet.

You know, some 50-plus countries around the world, "Roots" is universally embraced as an important story for humanity.

But it's really "Reading Rainbow."

- Yeah?

- That is, that's the first line of my obituary.

Mm-hmm.

- I think, right?

- Mm-hmm.

- Yeah.

- "Host and producer of 'Reading Rainbow.'"

A tribute to your mom.

A tribute to my mom and, you know, having...

Believing so much in the power of education as we do in my family, Mm-hmm.

having an impact on the reading habits of a couple of generations of human beings?

It doesn't get any better than that.

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