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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WRAL's Paul Specht discusses a dispute over mental health evaluations for criminal suspects. UNC-Chapel Hill professor and New York Times columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom shares her hopes for the future of the South. And comedian Sherri Shepherd's new stand-up tour comes to Durham. -
The first woman to head the nation’s second largest credit union talks about overcoming failure, learning to lead, and the growth of female representation in banking. Plus, Washington Post financial columnist Michelle Singletary talks about how to keep your New Year's resolutions. -
We talk to the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency about his time in the Biden administration. The North Carolina native describes his greatest accomplishments and disappointments, watching advancements in environmental justice, climate regulations and job creation being rolled back by the Trump White House. -
Due South pays tribute to the longest-serving governor of North Carolina. -
The midterm elections are here. With less than two months until the North Carolina primary, we get perspective from a reporter and two strategists about the candidates, the issues and more. It’s a 2026 election primer, on Due South. -
WUNC's Brianna Atkinson revisits the top stories in higher education in 2025. NCCU provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs Ontario Wooden sits down with Leoneda Inge to talk enrollment numbers. And KFF Health News' Julie Appleby joins Jeff Tiberii to unpack recent changes to Affordable Care Act health coverage. -
Canton, NC Mayor Zeb Smathers shares his hopes for 2026. And a conversation about family formation with a sociology professor. -
In this hour-long show, co-host Leoneda Inge speaks to a reporter who was in Florida covering the recounts, a political science professor who teaches about the election, and a student who covered the election results as a FAMU student in Inge's radio production class. -
The Michelin Guide comes to the South. Celebrity chef Carla Hall launches "The Me Menu." And Durham honors its longest running Black-owned restaurant, The Chicken Hut. -
A conversation with the creators of the PBS documentary “Becoming Thurgood,” about the life and legacy of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Then, the legacy of “Mr. Civil Rights” lives on in attorneys like Ted Shaw, the long-time director of the UNC Center for Civil Rights.
