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LeVar Burton to Receive Honor for Literacy Work

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Actor-director LeVar Burton will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Literacy in Media Awards 2000, taking place Thursday at the Universal City Hilton.

Actor Gerald McRaney, a longtime literacy advocate, will be the keynote speaker at the event, which honors television, film and radio programs that promote literacy.

Special award winners will include Showtime’s “In a Class of His Own” (TV movie award), HBO’s “Goodnight Moon” (children’s special award) and Fox Family Channel’s “The All-New Captain Kangaroo” (children’s program award).

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More information about the event is available on the Web at https://www.literacynetwork.org, or by calling (213) 237-6643.

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