Data from the National Assessment of Education Progress show that only 16% of black high school seniors ... once popular kids learning show, “Reading Rainbow.” In just 24 hours, Burton and ...

With a reboot of "Reading Rainbow," children's programming is about to get a lot more colorful. This weekend, the classic television show — which went off the air more than a decade ago ...

With more than 104,000 backers, Reading Rainbow is the most popular Kickstarter campaign ever. More people have donated to it than to the “Veronica Mars” movie and the Pebble Smartwatch ...

Last summer, Reading Rainbow, the beloved TV series-now-app, shocked the financial community when it raised over 6.4 million in a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter in just 35 days. It shattered ...

And I think the part of the beauty of that ... I've been able to portray the Black experience in America from our enslavement to the stars. And LeVar, the Reading Rainbow guy, is absolutely ...

Today, the leading premium documentary studio XTR announced Butterfly in the Sky, a feature-length documentary telling the story of Reading Rainbow. The film, which is currently in production ...

As broadcast rights are set to expire, PBS will no longer feed READING RAINBOW after August 28, 2009, and all broadcast rights will discontinue after that date. Skip to main content About PBS ...

LeVar Burton celebrates his television series Reading Rainbow in the trailer for the forthcoming documentary feature Butterfly in the Sky. The movie from co-directors Bradford Thomason and Brett ...

In 1983, Reading Rainbow was launched, setting the stage for it to become the most successful PBS children’s series in television history. What many people might not know is that the show ...

Yet instead of reading like a storybook similar to those ... casting leads to introspective ruminations on the vital need for Black male representation in the early ’80s. That effort toward ...