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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We chat with a reporter about the low morale, and challenging times, for public school employees – left without a raise in the wake of no new state budget. Plus, a film adaptation of a debut novel by NC native and author Mason Deaver hits the big screen. And, a new walking tour of Durham by WUNC's The Broadside. -
What happened in the municipal elections? We get morning after analysis on races in Durham – and turn our ears to Greensboro, Fayetteville, and a referendum in Charlotte. Plus, a new book on fungi, and we meet local truffle farmers. -
It’s Election Day! And there are municipal races in nearly all 100 North Carolina counties. What will voter turnout say about this political moment? Plus, amid plans for Major League Baseball to expand, advocates say Raleigh should hold the next team. And, a Black Southern writers conference returns to Durham. -
Due South's Leoneda Inge is joined by Bishop William J. Barber II, who was born in rural North Carolina and is the leader of the “Moral Mondays” movement. They discuss his fight for civil rights, voting rights and free speech. Then, Dorthea Dix Park in Raleigh is now home to some gigantic wooden trolls. -
Due South explores shifting partisanship – from party registration to how migration patterns have considerably altered what were long considered norms. Plus, the politics of sales tax with municipal elections already underway. -
Jeff Tiberii talks to Sam Ratto, founder of Videri Chocolate Factory about the impact of tariffs on business. Paula Poundstone's tour stops in Greensboro and Asheville. The founders of the Death Faire discuss the importance of honoring death, dying and grief. -
Unraveling the mystery of the 1985 deaths of two people killed in a Georgia church, and a new anthology of Southern ghost tales. -
“Mutual aid” is a phrase that received renewed attention during the Covid-19 pandemic, but the U.S. has a long history of mutual aid. Leoneda Inge talks with two scholars. Then, two helpers with Triangle Mutual Aid talk with Jeff Tiberii about their responses to Chantal and Helene, and how those efforts go beyond traditional volunteering. -
Jeff Tiberii talks to the VP of the Food Bank of Eastern and Central North Carolina. Washington Post national environmental reporter Brady Dennis discusses his reporting on federal reimbursement delays to Western NC counties facing Helene damage. Leoneda Inge talks with two sustainability advocates about Halloween costumes. -
Acclaimed food writer John T. Edge talks about his latest book “House of Smoke: A Southerner goes searching for home.” Plus, whether or not a class syllabus should be a public record, and a Duke professor remembers the late Jane Goodall.
