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 chats with McKinney's executive director of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. -
Leoneda Inge chats with CIAA Commissioner Jacqie McWilliams-Parker. -
Leoneda Inge talks to Kris Nordstrom, senior policy analyst for the North Carolina Justice Center's Education and Law Project, about what will happen to the state's school districts, in the event that federal funding is paused or withdrawn. -
Plus, The Chronicle of Higher Education鈥檚 "DEI impact tracker," and an intimate look at the Reveal series "40 acres and a lie." -
Research universities like UNC and Duke are anxiously awaiting news about the future of NIH funding. Former UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp tells us why school leaders are anxious and afraid. -
Leoneda Inge chats with Dr. David Washington about his debut graphic novel, Black Defender: The Awakening. -
Leoneda Inge sits down with Maggie Robe of Flyleaf Books to look ahead at some of the most anticipated book releases of the first half of 2025. -
Leoneda Inge chats with Jonathan Harward of Josefs Pharmacy about rising medication costs and how tariffs may affect sourcing. -
Some 60,000 North Carolinians鈥� ballots are being challenged by the Republican candidate for a state Supreme Court Justice seat. Due South learns who those voters are, and how they feel about their ballots being challenged. -
Two brothers, a pediatrician and a public health expert, talk about how full federal recognition for the Lumbee Tribe could impact health care in their community.
