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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Paycheck Protection Program money was right on time and picture perfect for a lot of people; for a lot of white people, that is. Many Black and Hispanic businesses didn’t get paid that way.
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As Confederate Monuments Come Down, The Pedestals Sometimes Remain. Why Some Consider That A TroubliIn recent years, Confederate monuments have been removed across the South, but in some cases, the bases remain planted in the ground. The Southern Poverty Law Center, among others, sees it as a concern.
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The Museum of Durham History is displaying the sign for Royal Ice Cream, the site of a 1957 sit-in, the state's first civil rights sit-in.
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In Warrenton, North Carolina, this Juneteenth is commemorated by a dramatic production. The community came together, not to tell the story of the end of slavery, but the end of Reconstruction, some 50 years later.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says fully vaccinated people can ditch their facemasks, for the most part. But some are still uneasy about taking it off in public and others are confused about exceptions to the rules.
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Updated at 1:30 p.m. Mass vaccination events, like the recent untaking at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, hasten distribution but also come with a...
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The number of people testing positive for COVID-19 is surging. And there is also a growing number of people getting tested for the disease, for the...
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While going to the ballot box on Election Day is an important ritual for many voters, the coronavirus pandemic has introduced a change in routine. As of...
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It’s the first of the month. For many, that means September’s rent is due. But because of Covid-related unemployment, hundreds of thousands of North...
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Soon after students were sent home in the spring because of COVID-19, a dozen presidents at historically Black colleges and universities across the...