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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From the social movements underpinning Social Security and Medicare to the hit TV show "The Golden Girls," Duke professor James Chappel takes Due South on a journey through American aging, and what the future of aging in our country might look like. -
The announcement comes after Sen. Tillis opposed Trump's budget bill. And acclaimed historian Blair LM Kelley celebrates the sharecroppers, maids, and postal workers in her award-winning book, “Black Folk – The Roots of the Black Working Class.” -
We try to beat this week’s extreme heat with tips from Duke Energy. We’ll revisit the history of Ocean City Beach, just in time for its annual jazz festival. And is the rising cost of summer camp breaking the bank for your family this summer? A few alternatives to consider. -
What’s old is new again! Just ask the folks at The Scrap Exchange in Durham. We go deep into the bins of old electronics, notebooks and fabric – and pull out a reuse business model that’s survived almost 35 years. And for some free high-end stuff! Hang out at an apartment trash bin near Duke University on Due South. -
The future of public media with funding under threat. Plus, trans rights in NC nine years after HB2, and last week’s Supreme Court ruling. -
Leoneda Inge talks to the NC Juneteenth State Director Phyllis Coley, Kindred Spirits Quilting Conference director Kimberly Cartwright and author and entrepreneur Natasha Sistrunk Robinson about various commemorations of Juneteenth in NC this year. -
The season is ripe for outdoor dramas in North Carolina. Out east, there is “The Lost Colony" and out west in Cherokee is “Unto These Hills.” Leoneda Inge talks with Matthew Climbingbear, a 5th generation performer in Unto These Hills. Plus, a real estate update from News & Observer reporter Chantal Allam. -
Federal cuts aren’t the only threat to the economic influence of North Carolina’s dozens of colleges and universities. -
The previous book authors joined an Ocracoke resident to take an even deeper dive on the culture and evolution of the accent. -
United States treatment of immigrants and visitors may put fans in a bind if they want to attend 2026 World Cup matches. WUNC reporter Aaron Sánchez-Guerra got a preview at this week’s Mexico vs. Turkey match in Chapel Hill.
