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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Co-host Leoneda Inge sits down with playwright Bekah Brunstetter to chat about her Southern roots, her Broadway debut and her latest play, The Game.
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In honor of Earth Day 2024, co-host Leoneda Inge chats with Dr. Jack Kurki-Fox of NC State University about microplastics pollution; State Climatologist Dr. Kathie Dello to talk about climate change in NC; and Charles Welch of the Duke Lemur Center about lemur conservation.
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Two reporters talk to co-host Leoneda Inge about the medical marijuana that will soon be sold on the land of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and why the effort has gained so much attention.
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Co-host Leoneda Inge is joined by a panel of reporters to discuss the UNC Board of Governors committee vote to eliminate DEI efforts and more in North Carolina news.
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Families that qualify will receive $40 per month for the three summer months per child. It will be paid out in a lump sum through electronic benefits (EBT).
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While some Republican-led states have accepted federal funding for a program that will make getting food during the summer easier for children on free and reduced price lunch, others use it as political football to score points against Biden
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Co-host Leoneda Inge sits down with Susan Campbell, longtime hummingbird researcher and co-founder of the Cape Fear Bird Observatory.
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Director and producer Tarek Albaba talks with co-host Leoneda Inge about why he made a documentary about the 2015 murders of Deah Barakat, his wife, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha. They are joined by Durham County District Attorney Satana Deberry and UNC law professor Joe Kennedy to talk about the legal case.
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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.