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LeVar Burton on Book Banning, Star Trek, National Book Awards
LeVar Burton, actor and literacy advocate, serves as the honorary chair of Banned Books Week and hosts the National Book Awards.
There were 1,269 demands to ban books and library resources in 2022, targeting primarily books about people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals.
Over 87% of Americans oppose book banning. [ more ]