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My Natural Journey: A Teen Reflects On Hair And Culture

WYSO | By Basim Blunt,
Jameka Swain
Published May 26, 2016 at 5:32 PM EDT
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Jameka Swain

This week on Dayton Youth Radio we鈥檒l hear from Dayton Early College Academy student Jameka Swain about being black and proud of her culture.   Jameka says she demonstrates this everyday through .

Jameka Swain is a junior at the Dayton Early College Academy. To learn more about DECA, visit the school's website:   Special thanks to Anne Rasmussen, Director Community involvement at DECA.

Support for Dayton Youth Radio comes from Dayton Rotary Foundation, the Fred and Alice Wallace Charitable Foundation, and the Iddings Foundation

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Basim Blunt
Basim has worked in the media for over twenty years, as an A&R rep with Capitol Records and as a morning drive show producer. He is a filmmaker, media arts adjunct, and also a digital editing teacher in the Dayton Metro area. In 2012 he joined WYSO as a Community Voices Producer, and his work has earned him a 鈥淣ew Voices鈥� Scholar award by (AIR) Association of Independents in Radio. Basim has produced the award-winning documentary Boogie Nights: A History of Funk Music in Dayton. He also served as Project Manager for ReInvention Stories, a multimedia docu-series produced by Oscar-winning filmmakers Steve Bognar and Julia Reichert. In 2020, Blunt received a PMJA (Public Media Journalists Association) award for his WYSO series Dayton Youth Radio, for which he is the founding producer and instructor. Basim spins an eclectic mix of funk, soul, and classic R&B every Friday night from 10:00 pm to midnight, as host of the 91.3 FM music show Behind the Groove.
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