Reading Rainbow Twitter Handle Returned to Its Rightful Owner

It’s always great to see something returned to its rightful owner, especially when that “something” is Reading Rainbow’s Twitter account and that someone is Levar Burton. Maybe it was his appearance on Community that showed the former Reading Rainbow host how important the show was to some people. Because just yesterday, Burton tried contacting the account @readingrainbow, which hadn’t tweeted in three years, to try to reach out to fans of the show. At first, Burton tweeted directly at the account, but then moved on to higher authorities, and within hours Twitter seems to have taken care of that problem...  read more

Reading Rainbow 2.0 "In The Works" According to LeVar Burton

Any child (and/or Star Trek fan) of the late ’80s/early ’90s knows LeVar Burton. He taught us that we could fly twice as high as butterflies by taking a look, in a book, on beloved PBS show, Reading Rainbow. Burton recently tweeted some exciting news that the show, which went off the air in 2009, may be revived for a whole new generation of youngsters....  read more

Reading Rainbow's Final Episode Airs Today

Before it was just a gateway to nostalgia, Reading Rainbow impassioned various generations of youngsters to pick up a book. But no more: The show will air its final episode today, ending a 26-year stretch....  read more