The Crushing Reality of Losing Hope

"It's the crushing reality that everything he's always hoped and dreamed for was never, never going to happen," LeVar Burton Reads says of his ancestors. "The one thing they longed for more than anything else, freedom to be free of the whip and the overseer ... there was no escaping." He adds: "As proof, I suppose, at the end of the day, that hope, no matter how dark it is, does live".