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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Leoneda Inge speaks with Henry Capers Jr. of the Emily K Center about HBCU college fairs. Dr. Cynthia Jackson Hammond discusses the roles and risks of losing of college accreditation. Dean Patricia Timmons-Goodson celebrates NCCU School of Law's 85th anniversary.
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The story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke has captured the imaginations of North Carolinians for centuries. And what actually happened to those colonists remains a mystery, despite so many efforts to uncover the truth.
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Co-host Leoneda Inge talks to Tyra Dixon, director of the Hayti Heritage Film Festival about this year's screenings and events.
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Co-host Leoneda Inge speaks with Brian Boyd, the William C. Friday Distinguished Professor in the UNC School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, about his research on autism in Black and brown communities.
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Co-host Leoneda Inge sits down with arts accessibility lawyer and advocate Dan Ellison to talk about how art spaces in the Triangle can improve their accommodations for those with disabilities.
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Tiny home consultant Jewel Pearson talks to co-host Leoneda Inge about how tiny house living can open the door to homeownership.
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Personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary talks to co-host Leoneda Inge from NC State's Emerging Issues Forum about financial resiliency.
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Civil rights activist and former North Carolina state senator Floyd McKissick, Jr. talks with co-host Leoneda Inge about why he's an advocate for early voting.
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Co-host Leoneda Inge talks with Durham County's Director of Elections Derek Bowens and WUNC's Voting and Election Integrity Reporter Rusty Jacobs about the history of NC's voter ID law, the many types of IDs accepted at the polls and how voters can ensure their vote counts.
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Co-host Leoneda Inge chats with Morehouse College history professor Frederick C. Knight about his new book, Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom.