Leoneda Inge
Leoneda Inge is 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 is also co-host of 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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When the house where the iconic '80s baseball movie "Bull Durham" was filmed went on the market, it attracted a lot more fans than buyers.
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Forty years after Warren County, N.C., residents marched to a landfill to try to stop dump trucks, the EPA is creating an office for advancing environmental justice. (Aired on ATC on Oct. 3, 2022.)
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Forty years after Warren County, N.C., residents marched to a landfill to try to stop dump trucks, the EPA is creating a new office charged with advancing environmental justice.
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Ruth Whitehead Whaley was the first Black woman to study at the Fordham University School of Law and to receive a degree from there. -
Fans in North Carolina react to the clash between what may be college basketball's biggest rivalry, as UNC wins over Duke and is headed to the national championship.
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The North Carolina-based playwright and actor Mike Wiley has spent the past 15 years performing his one-man show "Dar He," educating audiences about the 1955 murder and lynching of Emmett Till. -
More than 150 years after the emancipation of African slaves in America, artifacts marking the treacherous journey people took through the Middle Passage are still being found. -
The rate of people moving from one residence to another is up across North Carolina during the pandemic — and it's putting a strain on movers. -
Dozens of zoos around the United States have decided to vaccinate some of their animals for COVID. There's concern the animals could catch the virus from their handlers.
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After COVID-19 outbreaks at other zoos, the North Carolina Zoo registered to receive the Zoetis vaccine — specially developed to protect animals.
