{"id":42576,"date":"2016-01-19T10:15:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T18:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=42576"},"modified":"2016-01-19T10:15:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T18:15:23","slug":"burton-on-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2016\/01\/burton-on-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Burton On Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a <em>Martin Luther King Day<\/em> event at <em>Oakland University, Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>LeVar Burton<\/strong> spoke about diversity, including this year&#8217;s lack of diversity when it comes to the <em>Academy Award<\/em> Nominees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We live in a society that has very few points of view,&#8221; said Burton. &#8220;The lens is very narrow that we see ourselves through.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Burton, who played Kunta Kinte in <em>Roots<\/em>, the acclaimed 1970s miniseries that won nine <em>Emmy Awards<\/em>, explained that black stories are important, and not just for blacks. &#8220;There&#8217;s an entire generation who haven&#8217;t seen <em>Roots,<\/em>&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not just a black story. It&#8217;s an American story.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over eight nights, I watched this country being transformed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a Martin Luther King Day event at Oakland University, Star Trek: The Next Generation&#8216;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[3010,2451],"class_list":["post-42576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-academy-awards","tag-burton"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/BurtonDiversity011916.gif",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/BurtonDiversity011916-150x150.gif",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/BurtonDiversity011916.gif",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/BurtonDiversity011916.gif",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/BurtonDiversity011916.gif",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/BurtonDiversity011916.gif",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/BurtonDiversity011916.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/BurtonDiversity011916.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/BurtonDiversity011916.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/BurtonDiversity011916.gif",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42578,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42576\/revisions\/42578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}