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Beckham is the owner of Beckham Media LLC (www.BeckhamMedia.com) a public relations and creative marketing company located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Beckham represents a number of high profile clients and manages public relations, communications and marketing opportunities for various companies and agencies. For over twenty years, Beckham has enjoyed working in the television industry—in front of the camera as a News Anchor & Reporter, and an Award Winning Writer & Producer. Additionally, Beckham has represented and managed Public Affairs Departments for a number of corporations. Beckham serves as a Board Member with Three Rivers Adoption.  Beckham is also the founder and owner of www.SeattleUrbanMedia.com and www.NationalUrbanMedia.com

(Historian) was the first African American reporter at both a daily newspaper and a television station in the Pitsburgh region. He is the winner of seven Golden Quill Awards. With a grant from the United Way of SWPA, he cofounded Georgraphic Information Systems Education program (GISEP). This program designed an afterschool and summer high tech curriculum and internship project that provided team and leadership development inside real work situations for African American students from urban neighborhoods. He is also the vice president of the Danil B. Matthew Historical Society focusing on the history of the Tuskegee Airmen from the Pittsburgh area. He is also the co-founder of the POISE/Kiski Fund which provides financial assistance to minority students who meet the academic admission standards of one of the most prestigious private schools in Western Pennsylvania. He currently is the Founder and Chairman of the Board for the Tuskegee Airman Memorial Project of the Greater Pittsburgh 

Jack L. Daniel -Distinguished Service Professor University of Pittsburgh. Daniel served as Pitt vice provost for undergraduate studies and dean of students from September 2002 to December 2005. In his administrative role, Daniel served as chair of the Enrollment Management Steering Committee, coordinating a number of campuswide activities related to student recruitment, retention, satisfaction, graduation, and placement. He also was responsible for new undergraduate academic programs and worked with the Chancellor’s Diversity Task Force and Equipoise on issues relating to diversity.

KAM WILLIAMS - Entertainment Contributor                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

 Voted Most Outstanding Journalist of the Decade by the Disilgold Soul Literary Review in 2008, Kam Williams is a syndicated film and book critic who writes for 100+ publications around the U.S., Europe, Asia, Africa, Canada and the Caribbean. He is a member of the New York Film Critics Online, the NAACP Image Awards Nominating Committee and Rotten Tomatoes. 

 In addition to a BA in Black Studies from Cornell, he has an MA in English from Brown, an MBA from The Wharton School, and a JD from Boston University. Kam lives in Princeton, NJ with his wife and son.