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NC Central University Building Renaming

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Spot on renaming of a building at NC Central University originally broadcast on April 25, 2019. Posted for PMJA Award Contest.

North Carolina Central University officially unveiled the new name of its administration building yesterday. It no longer bears the name of North Carolina Governor Clyde Hoey, a known segregationist. Leoneda Inge reports.

 

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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.
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