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LeVar Burton arrives at the Star Trek Day celebration on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021, at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Burton has been hired as host of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, giving the competition a celebrity headliner who's also a longtime literacy advocate as Scripps takes over production of the bee telecast. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File) **FILE**

LeVar Burton joins Scripps National Spelling Bee as host

By Ben Nuckols - Associated Press

This combination photo shows LaVar Ball, father of UCLA basketball player LiAngelo Ball, left, one of three student players recently arrested in China for shoplifting, and actor LeVar Burton, who is being mistaken for Ball by some supporters of President Donald Trump. Trump tweeted that Ball was an “ungrateful fool” for not being more appreciative of presidential intervention in LiAngelo Ball’s case. Some of the president’s followers in turn attacked Burton on Twitter, with one calling him a “has been actor with a thief for a son.” (AP Photo/File)

Trump supporters confuse LeVar Burton with LaVar Ball online

Associated Press

FILE- In this Sept. 14, 2016 file photo, actor, director LeVar Burton smiles as he takes his seat in the Great Hall of the Library of Congress in Washington. More than three decades after the Reading Rainbow program began to encourage reading among children, the show's longtime host, LeVar Burton, is now focusing his efforts to promote literacy in the digital realm. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Take a look: A ‘Reading Rainbow’ in the digital age

By DAVID FISCHER - Associated Press

Actor William Shatner during at the Creation Entertainment's Official Star Trek Convention at The Westin O'Hare, on Saturday, June 7, 2014 in Rosemont, IL. (Photo by Barry Brecheisen/Invision/AP)

William Shatner, Patrick Stewart join effort to revive ‘Reading Rainbow’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Reading Rainbow star LeVar Burton has raised $1 million to reboot the cancelled show. (AP Photo/Reading Rainbow, file)

LeVar Burton sheds tears of gratitude over Reading Rainbow fundraiser success

By Jennifer Pompi - The Washington Times

FILE- This June 19, 2012 file photo shows LeVar Burton introducing the all new Reading Rainbow adventure app to the media, publishers and parents at the &quot;Reading Rainbow Relaunch&quot; event in New York. Burton's campaign to bring &quot;Reading Rainbow&quot; to the online masses is off to an impressive start. It reached its fundraising goal within hours of its launch on Wednesday, May 28, 2014, on Kickstarter, according to the fundraising website. (AP Photo/Reading Rainbow, file)

LeVar Burton makes a ‘Reading Rainbow’ plea

By LYNN ELBER - Associated Press

Reading Rainbow star LeVar Burton has raised $1 million to reboot the cancelled show. (AP Photo/Reading Rainbow, file)

Reading Rainbow makes a comeback

By Jennifer Pompi - The Washington Times