Tested Podcast

Changing The Game

By Leoneda Inge,

Published April 2, 2021 at 10:35 AM EDT

Ways To Subscribe

Google
Apple

Lunch counters were some of the most well-known settings for desegregation efforts during the era of Civil Rights. But in Asheville, North Carolina, that battle also played out on a municipal golf course where the careers of some of the greatest Black golfers of the 1960s were launched. Host Leoneda Inge talks with one of those golfers, Billy Gardenhight, and Paul Bonesteel, director of a new documentary about the course called "Muni."

Tags

Tested Podcast Tested Podcast

Leoneda Inge

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at WUNC as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.

See stories by Leoneda Inge

Rebecca Martinez

Rebecca Martinez produces podcasts at WUNC. She’s been at the station since 2013, when she produced Morning Edition and reported for newscasts and radio features. Rebecca also serves on WUNC’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accountability (IDEA) Committee.

See stories by Rebecca Martinez