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Pictured as the character Captain Sisko on one of a set of 18 British commemorative postage stamps issued 13 November 2020, celebrating the "Star Trek" television and film franchise. Stamps were issued as 12 individual stamps, honoring captains and crew members; and 6 stamps in a single souvenir sheet, highlighting heroes and villains. All stamps were nondenominated and marked first class (76p on day of issue). Others honored by this set are William Shatner, Patrick Stewart, Kate Mulgrew, Scott Bakula, Jason Isaacs, Leonard Nimoy, Marina Sirtis, Alexander Siddig, Dominic Keating, Sonequa Martin-Green, Shazad Latif, Simon Pegg, Tom Hardy, Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Alice Eve, and Idris Elba.

Attended the closing of Star Trek: The Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel and Casino on September 1, 2008.

Benjamin Sisko, Brooks's character on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), was ranked #50 in TV Guide's list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time" [June 20, 2004 issue].

(1993-1996) Artistic Director of the Atlanta, Georgia-based "National Black Arts Festival".

Received his Master's degree in Fine Arts from Rutgers University, where he has been a Professor of Theatre Arts since 1976; he was inducted into Rutgers' Hall of Distinguished Alumni in 1993. Brooks normally taught his courses at Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts; however, while working on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), he videotaped lessons for his students at the studio...occasionally still wearing his character's Starfleet uniform.

Avery Franklin Brooks was born on October 2, 1948 in Evansville, Indiana to a musically talented family.

Crawford toured the country singing with the Delta Rhythm Boys in the 1930s. Brooks also is musically inclined having played jazz piano, and has performed as the great baritone/actor/scholar Paul Robeson in the play entitled "Paul Robeson". He sang the lead in the A. Anthony Davis opera "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X", and performed as "Theseus" and "Oberon" in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at Washington's Arena Stage. Long affiliated with Rutgers University, he was the institution's first Black MFA graduate.

His maternal grandfather, Samuel Travis Crawford, was a tenor who graduated from Tougaloo College in Mississippi in 1901.