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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We remember the late Rev. Jesse Jackson and lift up his voting rights activism while a student at North Carolina A&T State University. Then, poetry from the new book 'We (The People of The United States).' -
The Assembly's Billy Warden talks about profiling various spouses of North Carolina's political figures. Whit Rummel talks about a long-held family secret, involving an art heist. Charlotte Symphony music director Kwame Ryan discusses his 2026 Grammy win and his 20-plus-year career. -
Academic free speech concerns; North Carolina's hidden 'Space Race' history; and a NC State graduate takes flight with NASA. -
Why The Avett Brothers' Bob Crawford thinks you should get to know John Quincy Adams. A conversation with NC Local's Laura Lee about local government responses to public records requests. And, meet Raleigh's trolls. -
A reporter explains a delay in diagnosing measles at an Asheville hospital. Dr. James Hildreth of Meharry Medical College in Nashville remains optimistic about the future of vaccines. And here in the Triangle, a pediatrician and medical historian delves into vaccine hesitancy. -
Leoneda Inge talks to WUNC education reporter Liz Schlemmer about waning public school enrollment and what it could mean for schools in the future. CHCCS Superintendent Rodney Trice joins Due South to discuss potential school closures and a steep budget deficit. Tayari Jones discusses her blockbuster fifth novel, Kin. -
Due South host Leoneda Inge interviews The Dedicated Men of Zion. -
Three experts weigh in on the gains and the big problems still facing North Carolina when it comes to tobacco use. Then, The Dedicated Men of Zion discuss and perform songs from their latest album, Coming Up Through the Years. -
Leoneda Inge talks to Shannon McKenna Schmidt, historical researcher and author of “You Can’t Catch Us: Lady Bird Johnson’s Trailblazing 1964 Campaign Train and the Women Who Rode with Her." Habitat for Humanity of Orange County president Jennifer Player discusses affordable housing. -
We head to the coast to learn more about an environmental issue that has sent dozens of homes crumbling into the ocean. Plus, a conversation about water concerns and resilience in North Carolina.
