
Leoneda Inge
Host, "Due South"Leoneda Inge is the co-host of "Due South" 鈥 蜜桃传媒's new daily radio show. She was formerly 蜜桃传媒鈥檚 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 蜜桃传媒 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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In January 2025, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law, renaming a Raleigh post office on Brentwood Road as Millie Dunn Veasey Post Office.
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Leoneda Inge talks to Denise Hicks-Mial, director of scholarships and student aid at North Carolina Central University, about how students navigate the high cost of college education.
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The Washington Post personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary joins Due South鈥檚 Leoneda Inge to share hard truths amid economic uncertainty, as well as strategies to move through it.
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Feng was a foreign correspondent based in China for seven years, but was kicked out following her reporting on protests in Hong Kong.
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The prices of imported goods are almost certain to go up, as tariffs from the U.S. take effect. While President Trump has instated a 90-day pause, it doesn鈥檛 apply to a 145% tariff on China, as Eli Chen reports.
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A farmer who doesn鈥檛 know how much money he鈥檚 going to lose. School districts don鈥檛 know how they鈥檙e going to afford local produce. 蜜桃传媒鈥檚 Education Reporter Liz Schlemmer fills us in.
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Every spring, High Point, North Carolina becomes the center of furniture design and manufacturing during the Spring Market. This year there was a twist 鈥 a looming tariff war threatens to shake global trade. A reporter, consultant, and folks in the biz share the latest about the present and future of NC鈥檚 role in furniture making.
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WUNC Higher Ed reporter Brianna Atkinson profiled the students.
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Leoneda Inge sits down with Duke University professor Mark Anthony Neal and musician and storyteller Lois Deloatch to discuss Ryan Coogler's latest film, Sinners.
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Leoneda Inge chats with Jonathan Stuhlman, senior curator of American art at the Mint Museum, about Durham native artist Ernie Barnes' "The Sugar Shack."