Leoneda Inge
Host, "Due South"Leoneda Inge is the co-host of "Due South" — WUNC's new daily radio show. She was formerly WUNC’s race and southern culture reporter, the first public radio journalist in the South to hold such a position. She explores modern and historical constructs to tell stories of poverty and wealth, health and food culture, education and racial identity. Leoneda also co-hosted the podcast Tested, allowing for even more in-depth storytelling on those topics.
Leoneda’s most recent work of note includes “A Tale of Two North Carolina Rural Sheriffs,” produced in partnership with Independent Lens; a series of reports on “Race, Slavery, Memory & Monuments,” winner of a Salute to Excellence Award from the National Association of Black Journalists; and the series “When a Rural North Carolina Clinic Closes,” produced in partnership with the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.
Leoneda is the recipient of several awards, including Gracie awards from the Alliance of Women in Media, the Associated Press, and the Radio, Television, Digital News Association. She was part of WUNC team that won an Alfred I. duPont Award from Columbia University for the group series – “North Carolina Voices: Understanding Poverty.” In 2017, Leoneda was named “Journalist of Distinction” by the National Association of Black Journalists.
Leoneda is a graduate of Florida A&M University and Columbia University, where she earned her Master's Degree in Journalism as a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economics. Leoneda traveled to Berlin, Brussels and Prague as a German/American Journalist Exchange Fellow and to Tokyo as a fellow with the Foreign Press Center – Japan.
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A week after Rosa Parks began a bus boycott protesting segregation, several Black men played a round of golf at the whites-only Gillespie Golf Course in Greensboro, NC. -
Host Leoneda Inge talks to the author and illustrator of a new children's anthology called The New Brownies Book. -
North Carolina NASCAR legend Richard Petty's 1970 Superbird will be in the inauguration parade, but behind the scenes, politics and policies swirl. A preview of what to expect from NC reporters. -
Leoneda Inge sits down with Kenny Mann, leader of the soul and R&B group Liquid Pleasure to discuss his career and his experiences performing at presidential inaugurations. -
We’re deep in inauguration season – Governor Josh Stein, a Democrat, recently took his oath. And soon Republican Donald Trump, the 47th President, will do the same. -
Leoneda Inge chats with Maggie Robe of Flyleaf Books about some of the most anticipated new releases of the new year. -
A story from The Bitter Southerner about a North Carolina farmer working to build a just and sustainable food system on land once used to extract and exploit. -
Leoneda Inge sits down with Dr. Zach Willis to discuss how norovirus is contracted and how to prevent it this winter. -
Co-host Leoneda Inge sits down with Dr. Nia S. Mitchell to discuss weight management in the new year and Ronald Young Jr. to chat about his podcast, 'Weight for It.' -
Former News & Observer political columnist Rob Christensen talks about his recent story in the N&O: “Jimmy Carter and NC were a perfect match — until tobacco and UNC came between them.”
