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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Most of North Carolina’s 28,000 dams are defunct, blocking wildlife from moving freely up and down rivers, and from getting dissolved oxygen in fast-flowing water. That’s of particular concern to the shrinking Eastern Hellbender salamander.
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Burmese pythons have decimated the populations of small mammals in the Florida Everglades since they established a breeding population in the 1990s. Nearly 1,000 have been removed through the annual Florida Python Challenge since it began in 2013.
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North Carolina Central University student Devin Freeman has now added NC delegate to the DNC to the already long list of civic and leadership positions he's held in his young life. Co-host Leoneda Inge talks to Devin ahead of his trip to Chicago.
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Paperhand Puppet Project's upcoming production showcases new puppets while exploring familiar themesCo-host Leoneda Inge talks with Donovan Zimmerman and Sophie Joy about their new production "Earth and Sky: A Great Gathering for All Beings" to be performed at the Forest Theatre on UNC-Chapel Hill's campus.
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A week after Rosa Parks began a bus boycott protesting segregation, several Black men played a round of golf at the whites-only Gillespie Golf Course in Greensboro, NC. A new mural portraying the men is unveiled this week.
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Before there was a U.S. Coast Guard, there was the U.S. Life-Saving Service with stations dotting the Outer Banks and the Atlantic coast. They looked like small backyard sheds but were better made and were more ornate.
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Adapting the Mediterranean diet for the Southeastern U.S. population, using southern food staples. Recipes, big ideas, and more with a doctor of public health.
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How a University of Tennessee professor filled, and overfilled, history classes by using the video game series Red Dead Redemption as a lens into the past. Encore edition.
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Co-host Leoneda Inge talks with Ansley Wegner about the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker program and its role in documenting North Carolina history — from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement — for all to see.
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Two cousins from the Aycock/Crawford family share their family stories with co-host Leoneda Inge and talk about their efforts to make it into the Guinness World Records for a family with the most living generations.