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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An advocate and a restaurant owner talk to Due South about why they want to topple the practice of tipping.
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Co-host Leoneda Inge hosts an hour of culinary conversation with local chefs Sandra A. Gutierrez, Nancie McDermott and Ryan Mitchell.
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Leoneda Inge speaks with Leticia E.C. Brown, PhD about the history of hair discrimination in sports.
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Leoneda Inge chats with Wake County School System board vice-chair Monika Johnson-Hostler about the district's efforts to update their dress code to include language from the CROWN Act.
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Two reporters talk to Due South about changes to abortion access in North Carolina and across the South. And candid discussions about the uncertainty and exhaustion for abortion providers in the almost nine months since SB-20 went into effect.
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Leoneda Inge speaks with Henry Capers Jr. of the Emily K Center about HBCU college fairs. Dr. Cynthia Jackson Hammond discusses the roles and risks of losing of college accreditation. Dean Patricia Timmons-Goodson celebrates NCCU School of Law's 85th anniversary.
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The story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke has captured the imaginations of North Carolinians for centuries. And what actually happened to those colonists remains a mystery, despite so many efforts to uncover the truth.
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Co-host Leoneda Inge talks to Tyra Dixon, director of the Hayti Heritage Film Festival about this year's screenings and events.
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Co-host Leoneda Inge speaks with Brian Boyd, the William C. Friday Distinguished Professor in the UNC School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, about his research on autism in Black and brown communities.
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Co-host Leoneda Inge sits down with arts accessibility lawyer and advocate Dan Ellison to talk about how art spaces in the Triangle can improve their accommodations for those with disabilities.