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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Politicians, parents, and pundits have lots of opinions about how to solve mental health problems affecting nearly every campus. In this conversation, students themselves share their perspective of what they and their classmates are facing. -
Leoneda Inge talks to Fayetteville native J. Harrison Ghee about their theatre roots, Broadway career and the 2025 DPAC Rising Star Awards. -
Leoneda Inge hosts an Arts & Culture encore hour, featuring Visit NC's Scott Peacock, Ella West Gallery founder Linda Shropshire and three artists featured in her latest exhibition and Carolina Ballet's Margaret Severin Hansen. -
Due South travels back to the land before time today. We speak with a NC researcher who helped discover a new dinosaur, and a scientist working to "de-extinct" species like the woolly mammoth and dodo bird. -
Tonya Council, granddaughter of the late culinary legend Mildred “Mama Dip” Council, has opened her very own Southern-style eatery, Tonya’s Cafe, in Chapel Hill. -
Jeff Tiberii and Leoneda Inge chat with writer and comedian Landon Bryant about his new book, Bless Your Heart: A Field Guide to All Things Southern.
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Leoneda Inge talks to NC State professor Jonathan Allen about milk testing and safety in North Carolina. -
Historians and curators in Georgia unveiled an exhibit of oil paintings at one of many events scheduled for what would have been the author’s one hundredth birthday. -
Roberts talks Harvard, campus protests, hiring a high-profile football coach, and more with Leoneda Inge. -
The mystery of "The Lost Colony" of Roanoke has been a centerpiece of North Carolina history and lore for generations, but was the colony actually lost? A Hatteras Island resident working with a British archeological team tells co-host Leoneda Inge about new evidence he hopes will change the narrative.
