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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Leoneda Inge sits down with Rev. Jay Augustine to discuss the 40-day Target fast. -
Dr. Mandy Cohen became a household name in North Carolina after the virus spread to the state. She led the state Department of Health and Human Services under Gov. Roy Cooper, and went on to lead the CDC during the Biden administration. -
An innovator in jazz, Django Reinhardt created a subgenre all his own. Now in its fourth edition, the Carrboro festival honors his influence and the genre of Jazz Manouche he created with performances, and workshops at Cat鈥檚 Cradle later this month. -
A deal to move a Confederate monument in front of the Edenton Town Council fell through. What鈥檚 next for the statue, and the lawsuits over its position. -
NC A&T professor Leah Barlow made a TikTok for the 35 students in her Intro to African American Studies class. It ended up reaching millions and inspired an online network of Black educators providing free lectures called 鈥淗illmanTok.鈥� -
Leoneda Inge sits down with the director and a principal actor from the play to talk through its themes of race, gender and social empowerment. -
Leoneda Inge talks to Jocelyn Robinson, founder and director of the HBCU Radio Preservation Project, about historically Black college and university broadcasting history and her team's initiative to archive and preserve it. -
Former News & Observer political columnist Rob Christensen talks with Leoneda Inge about his new book, Southern News, Southern Politics: How a Newspaper Defined a State for a Century. -
A scholar, an activist, and a poet talk about our state's history of racial terror, and the reverberations of that past in the present. -
Mediterranean Deli owner Jamil Kadoura talks to Due South's Leoneda Inge about finding the resolve to rebuild after the fire that devastated the popular Chapel Hill restaurant in July 2023.
