LeVar Burton: 'It was time' to remake 'Roots'
  • PARIS (AP)
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LeVar Burton was initially skeptical of remaking "Roots," the groundbreaking miniseries that launched his career in 1977.

But Burton, who played a young Kunta Kinte, overcame those concerns after seeing the educational value in helping the new generation of Americans better relate to the...

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