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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Nnenna and Pierce Freelon join Jeff and Leoneda for the Valentine's Day edition of Southern Mixtape. They talk love songs across generations from Aretha Franklin and Sam Cooke to K-Ci & JoJo. -
Leoneda Inge sits down with new State Treasurer Brad Briner to discuss 2026 changes to the State Health Plan premiums and his plans to reduce the budget deficit. -
吉彩网网站鈥檚 Higher Education Reporter Brianna Atkinson explains the latest change to National Institutes of Health funding and how it could impact North Carolina universities and research. -
Renovations are underway that will impact how visitors access Duke Gardens. Bill LeFevre, Executive Director of Duke Gardens, joins co-host Leoneda Inge to talk about how to (still) make the most of a trip to the 55-acre botanic garden in Durham. -
A Preservation Greensboro board member talks with Leoneda Inge about the long road to recognition for the South Benbow Road Historic District, which was home to many local civil rights movement luminaries. -
The name Charles W. Chesnutt may sound familiar, even if you don't know where to place it. It belongs to the first African American man to be published in The Atlantic Monthly and to break into the all-white American literary establishment. -
Leoneda Inge chats with Dr. Kristen "Kiki" Wynns about her standup comedy career and her upcoming show at Goodnights Comedy Club. -
Leoneda Inge talks about Siembra NC's community defense strategies with co-director Nikki Marin Baena. -
Leoneda Inge sits down with a panel of reporters to unpack the week's top news stories in North Carolina. -
Ten years since the murders of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, a documentary tells their storyRemembering a tragedy that rocked our community. It鈥檚 been 10 years since three Muslim American college students were killed in Chapel Hill. We talk with the filmmaker behind the documentary 鈥�36 Seconds 鈥� Portrait of a Hate Crime.鈥�
