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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Harold Weinbrecht joins co-host Leoneda Inge to talk about leading the town he grew up in, managing Cary’s growth, and his proclamation to change the name of Cary to “Carey” for one day — plus, property taxes and pickleball. -
Leoneda Inge sits down with Grammy-nominated jazz artist and storyteller Nnenna Freelon to discuss her latest album, Beneath the Skin. -
A Raleigh post office is renamed in honor of Millie Dunn Veasey, a NC-born "Six Triple Eight" memberIn January 2025, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law, renaming a Raleigh post office on Brentwood Road as Millie Dunn Veasey Post Office. -
Leoneda Inge talks to Denise Hicks-Mial, director of scholarships and student aid at North Carolina Central University, about how students navigate the high cost of college education. -
The Washington Post personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary joins Due South’s Leoneda Inge to share hard truths amid economic uncertainty, as well as strategies to move through it. -
A farmer who doesn’t know how much money he’s going to lose. School districts don’t know how they’re going to afford local produce. WUNC’s Education Reporter Liz Schlemmer fills us in. -
Feng was a foreign correspondent based in China for seven years, but was kicked out following her reporting on protests in Hong Kong. -
The prices of imported goods are almost certain to go up, as tariffs from the U.S. take effect. While President Trump has instated a 90-day pause, it doesn’t apply to a 145% tariff on China, as Eli Chen reports. -
Every spring, High Point, North Carolina becomes the center of furniture design and manufacturing during the Spring Market. This year there was a twist – a looming tariff war threatens to shake global trade. A reporter, consultant, and folks in the biz share the latest about the present and future of NC’s role in furniture making. -
WUNC Higher Ed reporter Brianna Atkinson profiled the students.
