MF GALAXY

  People love LeVar Burton . He’s got just under 1.9 million Twitter followers and in 2011 was on Twitter’s Top 100 Globally Followed list. He’s been an iconic figure in North American television since 1977, when he starred as Kunta Kinte , a Gambian man in the prime of life taken to the American rape gulag to be worked to death. Roots was the first American miniseries and at that time the highest-rated US television show ever made. Burton received an Emmy Nomination for his work. He later appeared in television series about Jim Jones and Jesse Owens , and even played a young Booker T. Washington . In the 2001 feature film Ali , he played Martin Luther King, Jr . And while becoming a highly successful television director, he’s known to hundreds of millions of people as Lt. Commander Geordi LaForge from Star Trek: The Next Generation , and as the host of Reading Rainbow . This episode’s conversation is from the upper floors of the archives of the Grand Lodg...