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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Canton, NC Mayor Zeb Smathers shares his hopes for 2026. And a conversation about family formation with a sociology professor. -
In this hour-long show, co-host Leoneda Inge speaks to a reporter who was in Florida covering the recounts, a political science professor who teaches about the election, and a student who covered the election results as a FAMU student in Inge's radio production class. -
The Michelin Guide comes to the South. Celebrity chef Carla Hall launches "The Me Menu." And Durham honors its longest running Black-owned restaurant, The Chicken Hut. -
A conversation with the creators of the PBS documentary “Becoming Thurgood,” about the life and legacy of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Then, the legacy of “Mr. Civil Rights” lives on in attorneys like Ted Shaw, the long-time director of the UNC Center for Civil Rights. -
Co-host Leoneda Inge talks with Stafford Braxton, who started his business "Santas Just Like Me" for Black families in search of more diverse representation in that red suit. And we meet two North Carolina men who've taken up the red suit mantle. -
In this hour-long show, co-host Leoneda Inge speaks to a reporter who was in Florida covering the recounts, a political science professor who teaches about the election, and a student who covered the election results as a FAMU student in Inge's radio production class.
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Some Republican lawmakers are worried about the aftermath of the immigration raids and arrests that played out during “Operation Charlotte’s Web.” Politico reporter Elena Schneider talks to North Carolina Republicans – on and off the record – for the article, “Is the Price of Doing this Worth It? North Carolina Republicans Worry About Trump Immigration Raids.” -
Jeff Tiberii talks to WUNC's Aaron Sánchez-Guerra about his top news stories of the year. Leoneda Inge speaks with The Assembly's Jeffrey Billman and Michael Hewlett about their reporting on lawyers' conduct in federal court. And comedian Alonzo Bodden talks about his comic sensibilities.
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Leoneda Inge talks to WUNC's Jay Price about the top military stories of 2025. Hayti Heritage Center's Tyra Dixon and Marcus Greene discuss 50 years in groundbreaking community arts work. The Assembly's Johanna Still breaks down her reporting on autism therapy and Medicaid coverage. -
Raleigh’s Hidden Historian tours the Cary radio station that inspired the major setting for Stranger Things' new season, the Duffer brother's high school theatre teacher, and the mystery that might have inspired the whole series.
