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 chats with Mavis Gragg, co-founder of HeirShares, about family real estate ownership, Black land retention and sustainable forestry.
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The 1980s were an important — and too often overlooked — decade for Black worker resistance, according to NC State history professor Ajamu Dillahunt-Holloway, who recently wrote about the struggles faced by Schlage Lock workers in 1988.
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One of 2023’s "best podcasts" discusses something we often don’t: Weight. Ronald Young Jr. shares, “the nuanced thoughts of fat folks, and of all folks who think about their weight all the time,” in his podcast. He talks about that and more with Leoneda Inge.
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The first of three Raleigh-based episodes of Antiques Roadshow will air on PBS North Carolina on April 1. Leoneda Inge takes listeners inside the process with the show's executive producer and a few featured collectors.
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Some little known history – the Black World War II para-troopers known as the “Triple Nickels.” Today’s firefighters learned a lot from them. Then on to the classroom – where we meet Asia Cunningham, a Durham elementary school principal who has won an award as big as the “Oscars,” in the teaching world. And there’s a move to help children and teenagers struggling with addiction and mental health issues. UNC Health has a new in-patient facility just for that.
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A conversation with Bill Ferris and Marcie Cohen Ferris about a new imprint that will publish books about the South. Then, a surprising history of apples. And a conversation with Carolina Hurricanes coach Rod Brind'Amour.
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An advocate and a restaurant owner talk to Due South about why they want to topple the practice of tipping.
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Co-host Leoneda Inge hosts an hour of culinary conversation with local chefs Sandra A. Gutierrez, Nancie McDermott and Ryan Mitchell.
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Leoneda Inge speaks with Leticia E.C. Brown, PhD about the history of hair discrimination in sports.
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Leoneda Inge chats with Wake County School System board vice-chair Monika Johnson-Hostler about the district's efforts to update their dress code to include language from the CROWN Act.