Avery Brooks

Last updated

Avery Brooks
QTXP 20121019 Destination Star Trek London MG 2144.jpg
Brooks at the 2012 Destination Star Trek in London
Born
Avery Franklin Brooks

(1948-10-02) October 2, 1948 (age 74)
Evansville, Indiana, U.S.
Education Indiana University, Bloomington
Oberlin College
Rutgers University, New Brunswick (BA, MFA)
Occupation(s)Actor, director, singer, educator
Years active1984–present
Spouse
Vicki Bowen
​
(m. 1976)​
Children3

Avery Franklin Brooks (born October 2, 1948) is an American actor, director, singer, narrator and educator. He is best known for his television roles as Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , as Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and its spinoff A Man Called Hawk , and as Dr. Bob Sweeney in the Academy Award–nominated film American History X . Brooks has delivered a variety of other performances to a great deal of acclaim. He has been nominated for a Saturn Award and three NAACP Image Awards. Brooks has also been inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre and bestowed with the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre by the Shakespeare Theatre Company. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Contents

Early life

Avery Brooks was born in Evansville, Indiana, the son of Eva Lydia (née Crawford), a choral conductor and music instructor, and Samuel Brooks, a union official and tool and die worker. [5] His maternal grandfather, Samuel Travis Crawford, was also a singer who graduated from Tougaloo College in 1901. [5] [6] When Avery was eight years old his family moved to Gary, Indiana, after his father had been laid off from International Harvester. Brooks has said: "I was born in Evansville...but it was Gary, Indiana, that made me." [7]

The Brooks household was filled with music. His mother, who was among the first African-American women to earn a master's degree in music at Northwestern University [ who? ], taught music wherever the family lived. His father was a member of the Wings Over Jordan Choir, [8] an a cappella spiritual choir best known for performing on CBS radio from 1937 to 1947. [9] [10] His maternal uncle Samuel Travis Crawford was a member of the Delta Rhythm Boys. "Music is all around me and in me, as I am in it," Brooks has said. [11]

Brooks attended Indiana University and Oberlin College. [6] [12] He later completed his Bachelor of Arts plus a Master of Fine Arts from Rutgers University in 1976, becoming the first African American to receive an MFA in acting and directing from Rutgers. [13]

Television career

Spenser: For Hire: Hawk

In 1985, Brooks was cast in the role of Hawk on the ABC television detective series Spenser: For Hire , based on the mystery series published by Robert Parker. Hawk became a popular character, and after three seasons, Brooks in 1989 received his own, short-lived spinoff series, A Man Called Hawk . In landing the title role, Brooks became the fourth Black-American male actor in a starring role in a first-run television drama following Bill Cosby, who co-starred with Robert Culp in the NBC spy series I Spy from 1965 to 1968, Clarence Williams III, who starred as undercover police detective Linc Hayes in the iconic ABC "hippie" cop drama The Mod Squad from 1968 to 1973, and Philip Michael Thomas, who starred opposite Don Johnson in Miami Vice .

Brooks said of his role as Hawk: "I never thought of myself as the sidekick... I've never been the side of anything. I just assumed that I was equal." [11]

Brooks returned to play Hawk in four Spenser television movies: Spenser: Ceremony, Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes, Spenser: The Judas Goat and Spenser: A Savage Place.

Star Trek: Benjamin Sisko

Brooks is best known for his role as Benjamin Sisko on the syndicated science-fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine which ran for seven seasons from 1993 to 1999.

Brooks won the role of Commander Benjamin Sisko by beating 100 other actors from all racial backgrounds to become the first Black-American captain to lead a Star Trek series. Brooks also directed nine episodes of the series, including "Far Beyond the Stars", an episode focusing on racial injustice.

Series producer Ronald D. Moore said of Brooks:

Avery, like his character (Sisko), is a very complex man. He is not a demanding or ego-driven actor, rather he is a thoughtful and intelligent man who sometimes has insights into the character that no one else has thought about. He has also been unfailingly polite and a classy guy in all my dealings with him. [14]

Brooks was nominated for a Saturn Award and two NAACP Image Awards for the role. [2]

Other roles

In 1984, Brooks received critical praise for his featured role in PBS's American Playhouse production of Half Slave, Half Free: Solomon Northup's Odyssey , directed by Gordon Parks. The story chronicled the life of Solomon Northup, a free man from New York kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841 and held until 1853, when he regained his freedom with the help of family and friends. It was adapted from Northup's memoir, Twelve Years a Slave (1853). [15]

Brooks appeared in the 1985 television movie adaptation of Finnegan Begin Again. In 1987, he starred in the role of Uncle Tom in Showtime's filmed adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Brooks was nominated for an Ace Award in the category of best Actor in a movie or miniseries for that said role. [16] A third project that allowed Brooks to highlight the history of African Americans was his performance in the 1988 television movie Roots: The Gift , which featured his fellow Star Trek actors LeVar Burton, Kate Mulgrew, and Tim Russ.

In 1998, he appeared in the motion picture American History X, which also stars another Star Trek actor, Jennifer Lien. He also played the role of Paris in the 1998 film The Big Hit .

During 1998 he also supplied the voice of King Maximus in an episode of the animated TV series, Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child entitled "The Golden Goose". Brooks was eventually nominated for an NAACP Image Award within the category of Outstanding Performance in a Youth or Children's Series/Special for the role. [17] He also voiced the character of Nokkar in an episode of the Disney animated series Gargoyles .

In 2001, Brooks narrated and appeared in a series of commercials for IBM. [18]

Other work

Teaching and cultural work

Brooks has taught at Oberlin College and Case Western Reserve University.[ citation needed ] A graduate of Livingston College and Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, he accepted an appointment in 1976 as an associate professor of theater arts at Mason Gross. [6] [13]

From 1993 to 1996, Brooks was artistic director for the National Black Arts Festival in association with Rutgers University. Held annually [19] since 1988 in Atlanta, Georgia, the internationally renowned festival celebrates African-American culture and people of African descent. In addition, Brooks has also done extensive work with the Smithsonian Institution's Program in Black American Culture. [20]

Music

A deep baritone singer, Brooks has performed on stage with Butch Morris, Lester Bowie, and Jon Hendricks. He also recorded an album with saxophone player James Spaulding, James Spaulding Plays the Legacy of Duke Ellington (Storyville, 1977). Brooks had the lead role in the 1985 Anthony Davis opera X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X. Also, he performed at the Paris Banlieues Bleues Festival in 2005. In his role as Benjamin Sisko, he performed the Frank Sinatra tune "The Best Is Yet to Come" at the conclusion of the Deep Space Nine episode "Badda-Bing Badda-Bang" as a duet with James Darren.

In a brief venture into scoring, Brooks composed the musical score for the final two episodes of A Man Called Hawk , which he starred in.

In 2009, Brooks released his debut album, Here, an album of jazz and blues covers, as well as spoken word. [3] During 2016 Brooks performed in concert with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra at the Springfield Symphony Hall. [21] In 2020, Brooks was featured on The DX Experiment's debut album, Black In My Own Way, an album of experimental music with spoken word. [22]

Theater

Brooks received critical acclaim in Phillip Hayes Dean's play Paul Robeson . Brooks portrayed the life of the famous singer, actor, and civil-rights activist in a one-man, critically acclaimed biographical drama. He has performed the role since 1982 at the Westwood Playhouse in Los Angeles, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and the Longacre Theater on Broadway. He also portrayed Robeson in Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been?, both on- and off-Broadway.

Brooks' early theater credits include The Offering, A PHOTOGRAPH: A Study of Cruelty, and Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? in the 1970s. He started to gain recognition after his appearance in Spell #7 at the Public/Anspache Theater in New York City in 1979. He subsequently starred in Othello at the Folger Shakespeare Festival (1985) and Fences at the Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Missouri, in 1990. He reprised the role of Othello at the Washington Shakespeare Theater in 1990–1991.

During 1994, he was inducted in the College of Fellows of the American Theatre. [4] Brooks later appeared in the title role of The Oedipus Plays, a production that traveled to the 2003 Athens Festival in Greece. He also appeared in the title role of King Lear at Yale's Repertory Theatre. In 2005, Brooks again starred as Othello, this time at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in a production directed by renowned Michael Kahn. Brooks was one of 15 actors of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC, to be honored with the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre in 2007. [1] He returned to the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Fall 2007 to play the title role in Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine . His performance was interrupted when an injury made it necessary for him to take time off to heal. [23] [24]

In September 2008, Brooks played Willy Loman in a production of Death of a Salesman at Oberlin College. [25] [26]

During 2010, Brooks performed in Baltimore Center Stage's production of Kwame Kwei-Armah's play Let There Be Love. [27] Once again, Brooks played the title role of Paul Robeson at the Shakespeare Theater from March 24–27 in 2011.

Films

Brooks played Dr. Bob Sweeney in American History X alongside Edward Norton. He also played mob boss Paris in The Big Hit, co-starring Mark Wahlberg. His last feature-film role was in 2001 as Detective Leon Jackson in 15 Minutes , which also starred Robert De Niro and Edward Burns.

Documentary work

Brooks has also hosted several documentaries and served as narrator in such features as the IMAX film Africa's Elephant Kingdom . His other documentary credits include narrating Earthquake!, A Passion for Faith, covering the history of black Catholics in America, Eyes on the Prize, Walking with Dinosaurs , Jesus: The Complete Story , Land of the Mammoth: Ancient Evidence, The Ballad of Big Al , The Science of Big Al, Savage Sun, Engineering the Impossible (The Colosseum), Greatest Places and Echoes from the White House, and God vs. Satan. He also narrated the three-part series Heart of Africa, consisting of Heart of Africa: Jewel of the Rift, about the lifecycles of African cichlid fish in Lake Tanganyika, Heart of Africa: Virunga, about the gorillas of Virunga National Park, and Heart of Africa: Fire and Ice, about the lowland animals of the Rift Valley.

In May 2007, Brooks recorded the narration for the documentary The Better Hour, which is about the life of William Wilberforce, the man who led the campaign for the end of slavery in the United Kingdom in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. [28]

Brooks also provided the narration for the BBC series Walking with Dinosaurs when it aired in North America on the Discovery Channel. His deep and authoritative voice commanded viewer attention; Brooks was able to draw on his years of training as an opera singer and his extensive stage experience with Shakespeare company actors not only to engage the viewer, but also to use his vocal abilities to emphasize the events as seen in the show. [29]

In 2009, Brooks narrated a special documentary for the National Geographic channel, titled Drain the Ocean. Using CGI animation, National Geographic simulates removing the water from the oceans to explore the ocean floor and its vast geography.

In 2011, Brooks was interviewed by William Shatner in the feature-length documentary The Captains . The film was written and directed by Shatner and features the original Star Trek captain interviewing every other actor who had portrayed a prominently recurring captain, upon whom the science-fiction franchise had yet been based. Brooks also served as music supervisor for the project. [30]

In 2013, Brooks began to narrate the Christian or Abrahamic series The Bible's Greatest Secrets, on the American Heroes Channel, which attempted to use interpretations of events found in the Bible to illuminate new archeological findings and interpretations of history, and to use interpretations of new archeological findings to illuminate interpretations of events found in the Bible. [31] IMDb lists the "Storyline" as: "Unlock the mysteries of vanished civilizations of the Holy Land and the people who built them." [32]

Later projects

Avery Brooks, 2009 Avbrooks2009.png
Avery Brooks, 2009

Brooks was part of a directors panel at a festival celebrating the work of Ntozake Shange at the New Federal Theatre on February 11, 2007. Brooks has directed Shange's Boogie Woogie Landscapes at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and in London's West End. [33]

As part of BBC Audiobooks America's entry into the US market, Brooks narrated an audiobook of Alex Haley's novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family . This was the first time the novel was adapted into an audiobook. Brooks had previously starred in a 1988 television film based upon the book, Roots: The Gift. As an audio book, Roots: The Saga of an American Family won an Audie Award in 2008 within the category of Non-Fiction. [34] [35]

In 2007, Brooks released an album containing in his words "a selection of ballads and love songs... I speak of my respect for my father, and for artists that I have listened to all my life." [36]

Personal life

Since 1976, Brooks has been married to Vicki Lenora Brooks, [37] an assistant dean at Rutgers University. [38] Together, they have three adult children – Ayana, Cabral, and Asante [39] – and live in Princeton, New Jersey.

After police received a report of erratic driving, at around 10 PM on January 29, 2012, Brooks was arrested under charges of driving under the influence in Wilton, Connecticut (being released with a court date of February 9 that year). [40] [41] [42] [43] [44]

In a December 27, 2020 interview with The 7th Rule Podcast on the YouTube channel Orville Nation, Cirroc Lofton indicated Brooks was not retired as an actor and would return to acting if offered a role, saying he has been blacklisted from Hollywood and is without any agent or agency. [45]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1985 Finnegan Begin Again Passenger on busTelevision film
1987 Uncle Tom's Cabin Uncle Tom Television film
Nominated—CableACE Award for Actor in a Movie or Miniseries
Moments Without Proper Names—
1988 Roots: The Gift Cletus MoyerTelevision film
1993 The Ernest Green Story Rev. Lawson
Spenser: CeremonyHawk
1994Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes
Spenser: The Judas Goat
1995Spenser: A Savage Place
1998 The Big Hit Paris
American History X Dr. Bob Sweeney
2001God Lives Underwater: FameDetective Leon JacksonShort film
2001 15 Minutes
2011 The Captains HimselfDocumentary

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1984 American Playhouse Solomon NorthupEpisode: "Solomon Northup's Odyssey"
1985–1988 Spenser: For Hire Hawk65 episodes
1989 A Man Called Hawk 13 episodes
1993–1999 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Commander/Captain Benjamin Sisko 173 episodes
Nominated—NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series (1997–98)
Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television
1996 Gargoyles NokkarVoice, episode: "Sentinel"
1997 Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child King MaximusVoice, episode: "The Golden Goose"

Video games

YearTitleRoleNotes
1996 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Harbinger Capt. Benjamin Sisko
2006 Star Trek: Legacy

Related Research Articles

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9) is an American science fiction television series created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller. The fourth series in the Star Trek media franchise, it originally aired in syndication from January 3, 1993, to June 2, 1999, spanning 176 episodes over seven seasons. Set in the 24th century, when Earth is part of a United Federation of Planets, its narrative is centered on the eponymous space station Deep Space Nine, located adjacent to a wormhole connecting Federation territory to the Gamma Quadrant on the far side of the Milky Way galaxy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sam Waterston</span> American actor (born 1940)

Samuel Atkinson Waterston is an American actor. Waterston is known for his work in theater, television, and film. He has received numerous accolades including a Primetime Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and a BAFTA Award. His acting career has spanned over five decades acting on stage and screen. Waterston received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010 and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2012.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kevin Kline</span> American actor

Kevin Delaney Kline is an American actor. He is the recipient of an Academy Award and three Tony Awards, and has been nominated for two British Academy Film Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and five Golden Globe Awards. In 2003, he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brock Peters</span> American actor (1927–2005)

Brock Peters was an American actor and singer, best known for playing the villainous "Crown" in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess, and the wrongfully convicted Tom Robinson in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird. Notable film roles include Carmen Jones (1954), The Pawnbroker (1964), Soylent Green (1973) and Ghosts of Mississippi (1996). He received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1991 and a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1992.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Daniel Davis</span> American actor

Daniel Davis is an American film, stage and television actor.

"In the Hands of the Prophets" is the twentieth and final episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe and directed by David Livingston, the episode originally aired in broadcast syndication during the week of June 21, 1993.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chiwetel Ejiofor</span> British actor (born 1977)

Chiwetel Umeadi Ejiofor is a British actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, two British Independent Film Awards, and nominations for an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and five Golden Globe Awards.

A Man Called Hawk is an American action drama series, starring Avery Brooks, that ran on ABC from January 28 to May 13, 1989. The series is a spin-off of the crime drama series Spenser: For Hire, and features the character Hawk, who first appeared in the 1976 novel Promised Land, the fourth in the series of Spenser novels by mystery writer Robert B. Parker.

"Far Beyond the Stars" is the 137th episode of the syndicated science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 13th episode of season 6. The teleplay was written by Ira Steven Behr and Hans Beimler, based on a story by Marc Scott Zicree, and directed by Avery Brooks, who also played the episode's – and series' – central character.

Melvin Richard "Dakin" Matthews is an American actor, playwright, theatre director, and theatrical scholar. Best known as Herb Kelcher in My Two Dads (1987–1989), Hanlin Charleston in Gilmore Girls (2000–2007), and as Reverend Sikes in Desperate Housewives (2004–2012).

"The Dogs of War" is the 174th and penultimate episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 24th of the seventh season. It is the eighth of the nine-episode story arc concluding the series. This episode was written by René Echevarria and Ronald D. Moore, based on a story by Peter Allan Fields, and was directed by Avery Brooks, who also played the role of Captain Benjamin Sisko.

"Fascination" is the tenth episode of season three of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 56th episode overall.

"Tears of the Prophets" is the 26th and final episode of the sixth season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 150th episode overall. It was first broadcast in broadcast syndication in the United States the week of June 15, 1998. It was written by Ira Steven Behr and Hans Beimler, and directed by Allan Kroeker. The episode featured the death of the character Jadzia Dax and the final appearance on the series of actress Terry Farrell.

The Abandoned (<i>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine</i>) 6th episode of the 3rd season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

"The Abandoned" is the 52nd episode of the syndicated American science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the sixth episode of the third season. It is directed by cast member Avery Brooks, who portrays Commander Benjamin Sisko. Brooks directed nine television episodes in this series overall. It was written by D. Thomas Maio and Steve Warnek, and aired October 31, 1994 in syndication.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Harold Scott (director)</span> American stage director and actor (1935–2006)

Harold Russell Scott Jr. was an American stage director, actor and educator, who broke racial barriers in American theatre. Scott first became known for his work as an electrifying stage actor with a piercing voice, and later as an innovative director of numerous productions throughout the country, from Broadway to the Tony Award-winning regional theatre, the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, where he was the first African-American artistic director in the history of American regional theatre.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Livingston College</span>

From 1969 to 2007 Livingston College was one of the residential colleges that comprised Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey's undergraduate liberal arts programs. It was located on Livingston Campus in Piscataway, New Jersey. In the Fall of 2007 the New Brunswick-area liberal arts undergraduate colleges, including Livingston College, merged into one School of Arts and Sciences of Rutgers University.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kelly AuCoin</span> American actor

Kelly AuCoin is an American actor who has appeared in film, television, and theater. He is best known as "Dollar" Bill Stern on Billions (Showtime), and Pastor Tim on The Americans (FX). He has had recurring roles on several other American television series, including The Girl from Plainville (Hulu), WeCrashed (AppleTV+), The Endgame (NBC), House of Cards (Netflix), and as Hercules Mulligan on the final season of Turn: Washington's Spies (AMC). He frequently appears on stage in New York and venues around the country, such as Manhattan Theatre Club, Signature Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and La Jolla Playhouse. He has had supporting roles in many films, including Steven Spielberg's The Post, The Good House, False Positive, The Kingdom, Julie & Julia, and All That I Am, which won the SXSW Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting.

Michael Hayden is an actor who has appeared both on the stage and on television.

<i>The Captains</i> (film) 2011 Canadian film

The Captains is a 2011 feature documentary that follows actor William Shatner through interviews with the other actors who have portrayed starship captains in five other incarnations of the Star Trek franchise. Shatner's subjects discuss their lives and careers before, during, and after their tenure with Star Trek. They explore the pressures, stigmas, and sacrifices that accompanied their roles and their larger careers. The film makes use of conversations, personal observations, interviews, and archival footage.

References

  1. 1 2 Jones, Kenneth (February 22, 2007). "DC's Shakespeare Theatre to Present Will Awards March 4". playbill.com. Playbill.
  2. 1 2 "Avery Brooks – Awards". IMDb .
  3. 1 2 "5 Things to Know About Avery Brooks". startrek.com. Star Trek. October 2, 2018.
  4. 1 2 "Death of a Salesman: Cast & Crew". oberlin.edu. Oberlin University.
  5. 1 2 "Avery Brooks Biography (1948–)". Film Reference. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
  6. 1 2 3 "Avery Brooks". IMDb .
  7. ↑ Davich, Jerry (2015). Lost Gary, Indiana. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. p. 53. ISBN   9781625851376.
  8. ↑ "Community Players Cast For 'Little Foxes' Announced". Evansville Courier and Press. Evansville, Indiana. April 3, 1950. p. 20. Archived from the original on December 22, 2021. Retrieved December 22, 2021– via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Obituary for Samuel L. Brooks (Aged 63)". Evansville Press. Evansville, Indiana. July 10, 1983. p. 7-B. Archived from the original on December 22, 2021. Retrieved December 22, 2021– via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ Light, Betsy (July 20, 1986). "TV's 'Hawk' serious artist". The Indianapolis Star. Indianapolis, Indiana. pp. 1E, 5E. Archived from the original on December 22, 2021. Retrieved December 22, 2021– via Newspapers.com.
  11. 1 2 Southgate, Martha (1989). "Avery Brooks: not just another pretty face" . Essence . Vol. 19, no. 12. pp. 74–76, 114. ISSN   0014-0880 – via General OneFile.
  12. ↑ Kipnis, Nora (February 28, 2014). "Brooks, OC '70, Returns to Oberlin". The Oberlin Review . Archived from the original on May 27, 2020. Retrieved July 6, 2020.
  13. 1 2 "Avery F. Brooks". Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni. Rutgers University Alumni Association. Archived from the original on July 6, 2020. Retrieved July 6, 2020.
  14. ↑ "Ron_Moore_3_19_97". Archived from the original on February 4, 2010. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
  15. ↑ "Solomon Northup's Odyssey". December 10, 1984 – via IMDb.
  16. ↑ "Awards to cover regular programs, specials". cdnc.ucr.edu. The Desert Sun. January 21, 1988.
  17. ↑ "Image Awards (NAACP); 1998 Awards". IMDb .
  18. ↑ "The 50 Best Celebrity Tech Endorsements". complex.com. Complex Networks. May 6, 2011.
  19. ↑ "About Us – National Black Arts Festival". nbaf.org.
  20. ↑ "National Museum of African American History and Culture Premieres Film on History of Blacks in the Military Jan. 26". si.edu. Smithsonian. January 12, 2010.
  21. ↑ Auerbach, Mark (February 28, 2016). "Review: The Springfield Symphony Orchestra Showcases Gershwin and Ellington". thewestfieldnews.com. The Westfield News.
  22. ↑ "HarpSpace Happening". harpspacehappening.com.
  23. ↑ "Actor Avery Brooks Stars in 'Tamburlaine'". npr.org. NPR. December 5, 2007.
  24. ↑ "Avery Brooks to Return to D.C. Tamburlaine on December 29 | TheaterMania". www.theatermania.com. December 18, 2007. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
  25. ↑ Gans, Andrew (September 18, 2008). "Avery Brooks Is Willy Loman in New Interpretation of Death of a Salesman, Starting Sept. 18". Playbill. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
  26. ↑ "Cast & Crew". Death of a Salesman. Oberlin College . Retrieved February 3, 2011.
  27. ↑ Gans, Andrew (February 10, 2010). "Centerstage's Let There Be Love, with Avery Brooks, Begins Feb. 10". playbill.com. Playbill.
  28. ↑ "Directing Avery Brooks in New York | Phil Cooke The Change Revolution". Philcooke.com. May 2, 2007. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
  29. ↑ Maynard, John (April 15, 2000). "'Dinosaurs': A Program With Bite". Washington Post .
  30. ↑ "Watch Avery Brooks tell William Shatner why he had to be the Captain on Deep Space 9". io9.com. July 18, 2011.
  31. ↑ ""The Bible's Greatest Secrets", American Heroes Channel". Archived from the original on February 28, 2016. Retrieved November 19, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  32. ↑ The Bible's Greatest Secrets: Mysteries of the Bible (1994–1998) at IMDb.
  33. ↑ "New Federal's Shange Festival Kicks Off Feb. 7". Playbill.com. Archived from the original on May 12, 2014. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
  34. ↑ "2008 Audie Awards®". audiopub.org. Audio Publishers Association.
  35. ↑ "BBC Audiobooks America Launches Trade List". April 11, 2007. Archived from the original on September 26, 2007. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
  36. ↑ Christian Höhne Sparborth. "The Trek BBS: Brooks On Star Trek, Rutgers, 'Roots' & Robeson". Archived from the original on October 18, 2007. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
  37. ↑ "Avery Brooks Biography (1948–)". Film Reference. Retrieved June 19, 2016.
  38. ↑ "Inspiring Success". Rutgers University. Retrieved June 19, 2016.
  39. ↑ Boasbergl, Leonard W. "AVERY BROOKS IS JUST AS COOL AND IMPOSING IN PERSON". Deseret News. No. September 30, 1989. Retrieved June 19, 2016.
  40. ↑ "Star Trek Captain Avery Brooks Arrested for DUI". E! Online. January 31, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
  41. ↑ "'Star Trek' Star Popped for DUI". TMZ News. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
  42. ↑ "'Star Trek' actor Avery Brooks charged with DUI in Conn". Fox News. March 26, 2015. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
  43. ↑ "'Star Trek' actor Brooks charged with DUI in Conn". Gwinnett Daily Post. Associated Press. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
  44. ↑ Marshall, Jonathan F. (March 31, 2012). "Red Bank, NJ, Drunken Driving News: Star Trek's "Commander Sisko," Avery Brooks, Arrested for DWI". New Jersey DWI Lawyer Blog. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
  45. ↑ "Gang of The 7th Rule". YouTube . Retrieved December 27, 2020.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.