Avery Franklin Brooks, Princeton resident is an American actor, television director, jazz musician, opera singer and college professor. Brooks is perhaps best known for his television roles as Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and as Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and its spinoff A Man Called Hawk, and in the Academy Award-nominated film American History X. The first African-American to receive an MFA in acting and directing from Rutgers...THIS VIDEO: A Man Called Hawk TV show trailer

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