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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2024 has ushered in a renaissance for Black country musicians in an industry that has historically overlooked them. Co-host Leoneda Inge chats with writer Alice Randall and musicians Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer.
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Two music professors share their appreciation of the percussionist's artistic innovations and talk about some of Roach's greatest contributions.
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Co-host Leoneda Inge revisits the legacy of civil rights pioneer and gender rights advocate Pauli Murray, the latest American icon to be honored with an American Women Quarter by the U.S. Mint.
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Dr. Amy Sayle from the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center joins co-host Leoneda Inge to explore what happens during a solar eclipse.
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A reporter talks to co-host Leoneda Inge about the use of the abortion pill Mifepristone in North Carolina and how a ruling on a U.S. Supreme Court case could restrict access.
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The Wolfpack men's and women's basketball teams made improbable runs and almost went all the way to the championships. Co-host Leoneda Inge talks with two reporters about the end of the season and what to expect for next year.
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Excitement is in the air. NC State is in the Final Four. Both the men’s and women’s teams will play in this year’s NCAA tournament. We’ll talk about the Pack’s historic run and meet two former players who took their teams to the tournament last time. College basketball isn’t the ONLY thing going on this week. We’ll also get the latest in state politics and more, on the North Carolina News Roundup.
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NPR political correspondent Sarah McCammon gets personal, and reports on the motivations giving rise to the ‘Exvangelical’ flight from the white Church.
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Leoneda Inge chats with Mavis Gragg, co-founder of HeirShares, about family real estate ownership, Black land retention and sustainable forestry.
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The 1980s were an important — and too often overlooked — decade for Black worker resistance, according to NC State history professor Ajamu Dillahunt-Holloway, who recently wrote about the struggles faced by Schlage Lock workers in 1988.