Leoneda Inge
Host, "Due South"Leoneda Inge is the co-host of "Due South" 鈥� 吉彩网网站's new daily radio show. She was formerly 吉彩网网站鈥檚 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鈥檚 most recent work of note includes 鈥�A Tale of Two North Carolina Rural Sheriffs,鈥� produced in partnership with Independent Lens; a series of reports on 鈥�Race, Slavery, Memory & Monuments,鈥� winner of a Salute to Excellence Award from the National Association of Black Journalists; and the series 鈥�When a Rural North Carolina Clinic Closes,鈥� 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 吉彩网网站 team that won an Alfred I. duPont Award from Columbia University for the group series 鈥� 鈥�North Carolina Voices: Understanding Poverty.鈥� In 2017, Leoneda was named 鈥淛ournalist of Distinction鈥� 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 鈥� Japan.
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Higher education in North Carolina is big business as schools vie for the best and the brightest staff and students. But in 2024, we learned how fragile higher education can be with budget deficits, leadership turnover, war, and politics. -
Co-hosts Jeff Tiberii and Leoneda Inge chat with local blues performer Pat "Mother Blues" Cohen and four chefs, Ricky Moore, Bill Smith, Mike De Los Santos and KC Hysmith at Motorco Music Hall. -
Leoneda Inge and Jeff Tiberii sit down with North Carolina rap icon Petey Pablo, a 2024 inductee into the NC Music Hall of Fame. -
When Caroline Bruzelius started studying the architecture of Paris' Notre Dame cathedral in the 1970s, she couldn鈥檛 have guessed she鈥檇 be asked to consult on rebuilding it. -
Forget Gatorade and a bag of chips 鈥� the American South is home to a more advanced style of gas station cuisine. Photographer Kate Medley knew this growing up in Mississippi, but what she didn鈥檛 know until she left was how unique and integral the restaurants and eateries at places you can also buy gas were to life in the South. -
Expanding internet access and the content creator lifestyle has opened the door to life on the road. But queer travelers in the South face still unique challenges. -
Duke history professor James Chappel takes Due South on a journey through American aging, and what the future of our "golden years" might look like. -
With more than twenty restaurants from Chapel Hill to Wilmington, Giorgios Bakatsias continues to expand his eatery empire, while staying connected to community. -
Leoneda Inge sits down with three influential figures in the world of HBCU sports: Vaughn Wilson, a longtime contributor at HBCU GameDay; Jacqie McWilliams-Parker, CIAA Commissioner; and student-athlete Krystin Johnson, formerly of Talladega College Gymnastics. -
吉彩网网站鈥檚 Music Reporter Brian Burns shares albums from this year that you should listen to
