Sounder, p1992: cassette (Avery Brooks) container (actor, director, musician and teacher)

Contemp. theatre, film, and television: v. 16 (Brooks, Avery; b. Oct. 2, 1949, Evansville, IN; actor, teacher, director and choreographer)

African American National Biography, accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Brooks, Avery; actor, radio/television producer/director; born 02 October 1948 in Evansville, Indiana, United States; received Bachelor's degree in arts (1974) and Master's degree in fine arts (1976) from Rutgers University; was a drama teacher and acting coach in the theater department at Rutgers University; plaid at the Public/Anspache Theater in New York (1979); appeared as Paul Robeson in a one-man play in theaters in Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, D.C. (1982); appeared on PBS's American Playhouse series (1984); appeared in ABC's private eye series Spenser: For Hire (1985); was offered the role of Benjamin Sisko, commander of an interstellar outpost in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; directed an episode of the series, Far beyond the Stars (1998); appeared in American History X and The Big Hit (1998); worked for PBS's Nova series and for Discovery Channel; joined the Shakespeare Theatre Company to play the title role of Othello (2005); collaborated with the Shakespeare Theatre Company for its production of Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine (2007))