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 head to the coast to learn more about an environmental issue that has sent dozens of homes crumbling into the ocean. Plus, a conversation about water concerns and resilience in North Carolina. -
Plus a news update from The Chronicle of Higher Education on fallout from university connections to Jeffrey Epstein, and local music journalists share their favorite NC music of 2026 so far. -
New research from Duke University focused on uncovering the health impacts of living with mold in homes, and the exacerbating effects of climate change and natural disasters. A panel of music journalists share their favorite NC albums so far this year. And a reporter fills us in on Jeffrey Epstein's connections to North Carolina and higher education. -
Jeff Tiberii unpacks North Carolina's primary election results with a panel of local political reporters. Leoneda Inge talks to the president of the Durham Colored Library. Poet Diamond Forde discusses her new collection, The Book of Alice. -
We talk to the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency about his time in the Biden administration. The North Carolina native describes his greatest accomplishments and disappointments, watching advancements in environmental justice, climate regulations and job creation being rolled back by the Trump White House. -
Durham Mayor Leonardo Williams shares his goals for his second term in office. Plus, an ancestor’s coded journals led a NC author on a path to understand himself. -
With measles cases on the rise across the Carolinas, public health expert Noel Brewer talks about vaccine guidance and community health. Then, Durham architect Zena Howard on the Smithsonian museum she helped design — and its moment in the political spotlight. -
Leoneda Inge talks to Henry McKoy about redevelopment in Durham's Hayti. Charmaine McKissick Melton joins Due South to discuss the history of housing in Soul City. Jennifer Player talks about Habitat for Humanity's efforts to build affordable homes in Orange County. -
Leoneda Inge talks to Claudius “C.B.” Claiborne, the first Black basketball player at Duke, about athletics and activism, and how the fight for inclusion continues today. Then, a new cookbook revives some legendary old recipes from Mama Dip’s Kitchen. -
We’re in the middle of early voting this primary election season. It’s a good time to check and see if your voter registration is in need of repair. More than 70,000 NC voters are on the list. We get an update. Plus, was the first rapper from NC? The Broadside investigates.
