(Akiit.com) Memphis, TN — Urban Radio Group LLC announces the launch of their new website and service Gospel Radio Spots (www.gospelradiospots.com). Gospel Radio Spots is a full-service voice-over production company dedicated to enhancing the brand image of churches and ministries through voice overs and audio production specifically targeting the Christian and Gospel Industry.

From advertisin your church or ministries special events to holy convocations, Gospel Radio Spots provides customized Christian and gospel radio commercials and television audio commercial production for church organizations.

Gospel Radio Spots has male and female voice over talents that understand the Christian and gospel industry thus creating a unique approach to church radio commercials, video and podcast ministries, and ministry promotions.

Gospel Radio Spots specializes in creative radio commercials, television commercials, and multimedia voice-over applications tailored for the gospel and Christian industry. With royalty-free music beds and extensive effects libraries, the production company works closely with its clients to achieve maximum results.

Denise Langshaw Advertising Consultant says, our production services are unique because we are able to take ministers audio clips, podcast sermons and enhance it to a better sound or incorporate it with one of our voice over talents for a complete radio, tv commercial or podcast opening , all we need is the pastors audio clips and or sermon.

The production company strives to be a media partner with its clients by providing high energy distinct radio and television voice-over production that captures the minds of their clients’ target audiences. In addition, customers have several choices of male and female voice over talents that can be utilized for audio production.
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(Akiit.com) The tragedy of four police officers being shot on a routine traffic stop in Oakland, California, over the weekend, offered a set of circumstances that we all must face up to at some point in our society. Four people died (three officers) and a fourth officer is on life support, and condolences go out to all the families. It is a public tragedy “of monumental proposition,” to quote Oakland Mayor, Ron Dellums. Hidden in the public tragedy is a greater social tragedy, young men who are re-entering society from prison stints that find it increasingly difficult to find work and are forced to go underground because they can’t find work. While the facts of the Oakland incident are being “investigated,” the scenario is not difficult to construct. You have a young black male, recently paroled from prison—to be paroled you must either have work or be actively looking for work—missed his check-in with his parole officer because he couldn’t find work and didn’t want to be violated (returned to prison), he’s violated and now a fugitive on the streets of Oakland, he gets into a confrontation “in the hood” that ends up with an assault with a deadly weapon, a no bail warrant issued for him and he was probably driving without a license and insurance when he was stopped. The all too familiar line, “Step out of the car, sir” (if it was that polite) is the cue for what comes next. The “routine” encounter turned to panic and the rest is news. This young man, Lovelle Mixon was estranged long before his final estrangement. He represented the worse extreme of prison re-entry; black, male and unemployed with a criminal “strike.” It is an equation for the social estrangement for many, many black males.

Just for the record, there is no such thing as a routine encounter when police stop black men. Anything can happen and anything has happened, never mattering how passive or professional the black male. When combined with negative stereotypes and egregious emasculation, there is a hyper-sensitivity directed at black men that is, for less than a better term, hostile. Hostility toward black males is reflected in most social and economic indicators—from high school dropouts to unemployment rates to lower pay when hired-from most traffic stops to most arrests to longer jail sentences. This hostility heightens the potential for “accidents,” as Richard Pryor once said, when police encounter black men, and the reasons for stopping them is frequently highly suspect. Racial profiling studies bear this out. Recent studies on prisoner re-entry suggest that, in California, nearly 400 prisoners, A DAY, are being released into the community, with 70% to 90% of them being unemployed because only 20% of the state’s employers are willing to hire persons with convictions (no matter how long ago). Unemployment rates released last week showed that black unemployment was at 12.5% (16% nationally), a full five points over white unemployment at 7.5%. The state unemployment rate is at 10.5%. However, by most estimates black male unemployment is over 20% with one in five black men being out of work. Black teen unemployment was nearly 40% last summer and is expected to be higher this summer.
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(Akiit.com) The third year Senator from Illinois pulled no punches in 2007 when he wrote that “the long march” toward justice and equality is far from over. Then Senator Barack Obama wrote the punchy words in the introduction to the National Urban League’s hard hitting annual State of Black America report. It details the social and economic woes of millions of poor blacks.

It was no accident that then Senator Obama was picked to ram home the point that discrimination and poverty are still towering problems that plague the black poor and not so poor. His past civil rights and poverty activist work in inner city Chicago neighborhoods was well-known and widely admired.

So there was more than a dose of irony mixed with a hint of disappointment when Urban League President Marc Morial minced no words and implored President Obama to talk about black issues. Morial can’t be blamed for trying to nudge the president to say and do more about black issues. They are still just as tormenting today as they were when the Illinois junior senator spoke out on them. The State of Black America report as it has done almost ritually for the past decade warns that blacks are less likely to own their own homes, die earlier, are far more likely to be jailed disproportionately and receive longer sentences, receive less or poorer quality health care and earn far less than whites. They attend failing public schools, and are more likely the victims of racially motivated hate crimes than any other group.

The economic crash has slammed blacks harder than any other group. They have higher rate of home foreclosures, the greatest loss of jobs, and there’s been even more shrinkage in funds for the worst performing and poorest schools. These are the exact things that Obama agonized over two years ago in the Urban League report. But that was two years ago and a presidential election apart from his days on the streets of Southside Chicago and his stint in the Senate.

Even without the heavy weighted preoccupation with cleaning up the Wall Street mess and jumpstarting a moribund economy, President Obama still wouldn’t likely frontally talk about race. One reason is practical, transparent, and carries far less risk than bringing in the race issue. Obama’s oft stated stance is that the gaping racial disparities that the Urban League chides him to address can best be dealt with by greater funding outlays and more proactive programs and initiatives on health care and education reform, and by the creation of thousands of new jobs, and energy and technology expansion and independence. It’s a variation on the old rising tide lifts all ships approach to solving the problems of the poor, and since the ships that are in the poorest shape of all are those of the poor and minorities, they will benefit the most by this approach. Stand alone talk about race just muddies things up.
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(Akiit.com) To my surprise it’s been cold around here… Also raining constantly as I yearn for the sun once again… Yes being able to play outside while getting a tan… A little on the pale side at this time… I see that the neighbor house seems to be breaking down… Some door hardware would do wonders literally… Yes the whole place is in need of a remodeling… Anyway, the music is booming and I’m having the time of my life… Family is visiting, so let me sign off…

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(Akiit.com) Last night my favorite team UNC easily breeze passed Gonzaga and now are in the elite eight… One more win and we are off to the Final Four… We play again on Sunday… On that note, I need find a newspaper… A friend of mines have been dabbing into Wilmington NC real estate for the last few years… I myself may be looking to purchase a new house soon… Well I must go now…

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