Leoneda Inge

2 weeks ago | wunc.org | Leoneda Inge |Jeff Tiberii |Stacia M. Brown

By day, Chris Vitiello works as a communications strategist for NC State University’s Libraries. But he moonlights as a purveyor of poetry, typing custom poems at special events and commemorating strangers’ life milestones. Vitiello is the author of several poetry books and currently serves as Durham’s second poet laureate. However, he may be best known as the Poetry Fox, a costumed performance artist who’s crafted over 60,000 poems for strangers on his many vintage typewriters.

2 weeks ago | wunc.org | Leoneda Inge |Cole del Charco

It’s been 20 years since the Black Banjo Gathering in Boone, NC. It was a summit that launched the career of North Carolinian Rhiannon Giddens, and highlighted the Black roots of Americana, folk, and blues music. Through music, food, and literature, the upcoming “Biscuits and Banjos” festival hopes to spark conversations, collaborations, and support for attendees. GuestCicely E. Mitchell, festival producer of Biscuits & Banjos, and the owner of Durham Jazz Club Missy Lane’s Assembly Room

3 weeks ago | wunc.org | Leoneda Inge |Stacia M. Brown

Due South's Leoneda Inge talks with Alice Randall, author of My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present and Future. And we welcome the future! Award-winning folk and country music artists Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer tell us how they’ve made it this far in the biz. Alice Randall, Rhiannon Giddens, and Rissi Palmer will be in Durham later this week for Biscuits and Banjos – a music festival curated BY Rhiannon Giddens.

3 weeks ago | wunc.org | Leoneda Inge |Cole del Charco

Commerce and economic leaders in North Carolina say many large companies are in a holding pattern, waiting to make decisions on new factories, or other major investments. And for small businesses, prices on the goods required to make the products they sell could spike. GuestZachary Eanes, reporter Axios Raleigh

4 weeks ago | wunc.org | Leoneda Inge |Stacia M. Brown

Across almost every health indicator, Black women fare worse than women in other racial and ethnic groups. This is particularly true for expectant mothers. One proposed approach to closing those gaps is for medical professionals to change how they assess patients. Guest Wylin D Wilson, Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School. Her latest book is Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality and Black Women’s Health