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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School vouchers allow state taxpayer money to ‘follow the student’ to private schools. Depending on your opinion, that might be a win or loss for students. -
ProPublica has identified 39 likely “segregation academies” are still operating in North Carolina and that have gotten school voucher money. More than half of those have student bodies that are at least 85 percent white. -
The North Carolina State Education Assistance Authority (NCSEAA) says 54,000 Opportunity Scholarships have been offered to families -
Dr. Damon Tweedy discusses his choice to enter the field of psychiatry, despite its stigma within the medical industry. He sits down with co-host Leoneda Inge to discuss his new book, Facing the Unseen: The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine. -
Leoneda Inge chats with the director and star of PlayMakers Repertory Company's new holiday show, The Christmas Case of Hezekiah Jones. -
Leoneda Inge chats with Oak Grove Pirates youth football coach Willie Parker and Mitchell Northam about current landscape of youth and college football in NC. -
Education and Esports are the basis for UNC Greensboro’s biannual weekends for middle and high school students, and educators called E2. -
An excerpt from The Broadside's recent episode "The world's biggest video game is from North Carolina." -
Exclusive dinners held by chefs and restaurants in New Orleans donate funds for restaurants and employees in Asheville. -
Due South's tree hour: 'Leave the leaves' campaigns; a history of the longleaf pine and bald cypressThree proponents of "leaving the leaves" make their case, plus an environmental historian shares stories of the longleaf pine and the bald cypress, two trees entwined in the history of the South.
