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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Leoneda Inge sits down with chef Sheri Castle to discuss Thanksgiving meal options and the end of her hit show, The Key Ingredient. Durham Community Fridges discuss providing 24-hour mutual aid options in Durham County. -
What it's like to be an immigration lawyer right now. NC A&T gets another major donation from MacKenzie Scott. And UNC-Chapel Hill students are starting their own credit union. -
Advocacy group Siembra NC continues support and training efforts amid the immigration enforcement operations in the Triangle. Plus, an immigration law professor on the potential for civil rights violations with current arrest practices. And we remember an American chess star who died in Charlotte this fall. -
We get updates on the federal raids in our state, hear about the little-known connections Tupac Shakur had to Robeson County, and learn about a project at the childhood home of legenday soul singer Nina Simone. -
Dr. Brittany Hunt talks with co-host Leoneda Inge about her efforts to center Indigenous stories and dismantle harmful teaching practices. And The Broadside brings us the story of effots to save the Cherokee language. -
The latest on Border Patrol operations in NC, Asheville celebrates the 100th anniversary of early folk and country music recordings, and author Stephanie Elizondo Griest shares her new book Art Above Everything. -
Jeff Tiberii speaks with State Treasurer Brad Briner about his first year in office. ProPublica's Doug Bock Clark talks about NC Supreme Court Justice Paul Newby's influence. -
Leoneda Inge talks to the Honorable Eva M. Clayton, the first Black woman to represent North Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives. Jeff Tiberii talks to Ana González about her new podcast, Our Common Nature. -
A Veterans Day conversation with a son about his naval officer father, and a 79-year-old mystery sparked by that father's return home to eastern North Carolina after World War II. A new production of “Once on This Island” wraps up Theatre Raleigh’s Main Stage season. And, WUNC's Jay Price talks about the impact of the government shutdown on National Guard families. -
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.
