Until the world in some way changes, then my responsibility is to share what I know and more importantly to behave like I know about the extraordinary work and effort and blood shed for me to be able to sit here.

Brooks said of his role as Hawk: "I never thought of myself as the sidekick. Stallone many years ago — I have great respect for Mr. He also portrayed Robeson in Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been? both on and Off-Broadway.

Avery Franklin Brooks (born October 2 1948) is an American actor. Robert Sweeney in the Academy Award-nominated film American History X. Brooks is perhaps best known for his television roles as Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and its spinoff A Man Called Hawk and as Dr.