10 Books Published by Beckham Publications Group on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

Walter E. Massey’s memoir will offer the first insider’s gaze at events and people that never before have been revealed publicly. Hedoesn’t hold back on how surprised and flabbergasted he felt after learning that the Bank of America board had chosen him as CEO. In the Eye of the Storm: My Time as Chairman of Bank of America During the Country’s Worst Financial Crisis is the behind-the-scenes story of the nation’s gravest financial crisis in decades.

Although this memoir will focus on Massey’s time with Bank of America, it will incorporate relevant details of his other professional activities. His breadth of accomplishments includes president emeritus of Morehouse College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and leadership roles at the National Science Foundation and Argonne National Laboratory. More than forty higher education institutions have awarded him honorary degrees.

Jazz Ellington says to his best friend Marquis, "I got bank!" And he does. At ten years old, he has over $2,000 in the bank, and his savings keep growing. His granddad taught him to save his allowance and set up a bank account to make sure he did. I Got Bank! increases financial awareness while sharing the lives of two African American boys growing up in the city.

Distinguished novelist’s stab at presenting a different kind of love story. "I wanted a black male narrator who is tender and passionate," says Beckham. "At the same time," he adds, "readers will find my usual elements of exaggerated reality and social commentary." His narrator is a 50-year-old African-American photographer whose third wife, Chinita-twenty years younger-has just died after a painful bout with "the disease that keeps growing." Caught in Washington, DC traffic and listening to talk radio as he drives toward his beach house, the narrator has the perfect audience-a sympathetic Teddy bear. The photographer’s rumination is really a description of his long search for his soul mate, his earth angel. It has taken more than half of his life to find her. His musings are poignant explorations of the full range of passion and romance. At the same time, the events take on surreal, comic and tragic tones as he negotiates his way in a society that seems obsessed with stifling and subjugating his manhood. For the African-American male in the last half of the twentieth century, says Beckham, it is a painfully difficult challenge trying to foster a loving, tender relationship filled with passion and joy.

Set in New York and Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Middle Ground combines a fast-paced narrative with powerful insights into human nature Janice McWright, the first African-American ambassador to Belgium and a champion of open markets for American goods and services, dies mysteriously in a car crash in Brussels, Belgium. At the funeral, Shayna, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, discovers that she is McWright’s adopted daughter. Shayna heads to war-torn Congo to find her birth mother. She gets help from her friend Amina, and they become entangled in a series of spine-tingling discoveries. In Kinshasa, Shayna learns from the local CIA operative that Janice’s death was no accident. Then Amina falls in love with the wealthy Congolese industrialist, Crispin. He’s intent on overturning the global economic status quo. But an unexpected tie exists between him and Shayna’s natural mother. As Shayna draws closer to the identity of her mother, the CIA whisks her out of the Congo with Amina, fearing they both may be targets of the man suspected of murdering Janice McWright. The lightning-paced thriller ends with the surprising discovery by the CIA of who killed her.

Runner Mack is the compelling story of young Henry Adams’ road to self-discovery through his encounter and friendship with Runner Mack, a self-styled black militant. Rich with metaphor and symbolism, the novel portrays the "grand old game" of baseball as the symbol of America–for whites, a sanctuary where the American dream is a reality, for blacks, a nightmarish world filled with pain, chaos, and frustration.

My Main Mother is a novel about growing up. Without a father. With a mother who is beautiful, promiscuous, avidly ambitious. In a small town in Maine. In the human jungle of New York. Growing up defiant and scared, happy and torn up. Growing up black. And growing up human. It is, quite simply, one of the most remarkable novels in years.

Beckham’s Guide to Scholarships is an up-to-date reference tool listing the most important and little-known sources of private financial aid for black and minority students. The volume gives the reader: contact information for awards, eligibility requirements, an index by name, advice and information, and a bibliography of references and resources.

Format Paperback Subject Literary Collections Publisher Beckham House Publishers Inc

Reviews of literary, scholarly and religious treatments of blacks in the Bible and in society.

Barry Beckham has systematized and streamlined the process of selecting a college with a series of self-paced exercises designed to match student and institution.