Financing a Means to Escape Intimate Abuse
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The Charlotte Post THURSDAY,Li DECEMBERfe 3, 2020 SECTION! B ALVIN C. JACOBS JR. Courageous SHIFT founder and CEO Melody Gross established the Eva Lee Parker Fund to help people escape abusive re- lationships. Financing a means to IDEAL HOME Fresh-cut trees are a staple of the Christmas season. escape intimate abuse Courageous SHIFT founder turns personal experience into activism A fresh-cut By Ashley Mahoney paternal grandmother, who was women in domestic violence situ- [email protected] also abused, with the intention of ations need immediate help,” raising $50,000 by Jan. 3, Parker’s Gross said in a statement. Melody Gross wants Black birthday. Funding may be used for travel Christmas tree women to have the financial free- Sanctuary in the City, a Black- to escape an abuser, dom to leave abusive relation- and female-led nonprofit that pro- car maintenance ships. vides accessible and safe spaces and gas, dam- On The Net The CEO and founder of Coura- for healing to Black, Indigenous aged goods as www.coura- makes season geousshift.co geous SHIFT established the Eva and people of color, donated well as other Lee Parker fund to provide finan- $10,000 to kick off the campaign. non-discre- m/evaleepar- kerfund By Molly Weisner cial support to Black women ex- Donations and applications for tionary needs. UNC MEDIA HUB periencing intimate partner funding can be found on the Cou- Gross decided to WAYNESVILLE, N.C. –Darren Nicholson slides into violence. Gross, a domestic vio- rageous SHIFT website. focus the fund on providing assis- the driver’s seat of a mud-spattered four-wheeler lence survivor, founded Coura- “This is an aggressive fundrais- tance to Black women as they are and putters along a dirt road. The Great Smoky geous SHIFT to advocate for those ing goal, but violence against three times more likely to experi- Mountains loom in the background, and the early in a similar situation through Black women in this country is sel- ence intimate partner violence November sun fills up the bowl of Maggie Valley. coaching and consulting. She dom treated with appropriate se- than their white counterparts. Passing two silos, a log cabin and a row of empty named the fund in honor of her riousness or urgency, and Black Please see FINANCING |2B trailers, Nicholson moves his free hand to grip the wheel as he clambers up a steep, leaf-littered hill. A self-proclaimed mountain man, Nicholson and his four-wheeler look one slick leaf pile away from sliding back down to the gravel road. But with a sup- NC’s historically Black colleges portive pat on the dash and a honeyed “C’mon, baby,” Nicholson reaches the overlook of Boyd Mountain Christmas Tree Farm in Waynesville. Nicholson – a former banker in Asheville and full- keep COVID-19 infections at bay time bluegrass musician – works seasonally on a 100-year-old Fraser fir farm. After sitting in an office By Aaliyah Bowden is how well North Caro- for 10 years, Nicholson joined the Boyd family staff lina’s 16 historically black in 2013. Now, his office is 130 acres, and his tender NORTH CAROLINA HEALTH NEWS In August, the semester colleges and universities is saplings. have done at tamping “This beats the hell out of a bank,” Nicholson said, at UNC Chapel Hill came to an abrupt end as hundreds down outbreaks of COVID, grinning. compared to larger Nicholson slowly picks his way over the rolling of students fell ill as a re- sult of COVID-19. When schools. The largest HBCU land, driving past rows of Christmas trees, organized outbreak has been at North in five-by-five rows grouped by age. At the top of students were told to move off campus and classes Carolina A&T State Univer- each hill, he can see the sun glinting off the trees’ sity in Greensboro, with a tags like tinsel, which mark price and size. moved online exclusively, UNC became something of total of 474 diagnosed stu- He knows there are 5,000 trees because he tagged dents among the campus each one by hand. a national punchline for how quickly the wheels fell population of more than Stopping next to a tree, he reaches out to pat its 13,000, making a case rate branches. They spring under his touch, and not a off. of about 36 cases per 1,000 AALIYAH BOWDEN | NORTH CAROLINA HEALTH NEWS single needle drops. The underside of the branch is Across North Carolina’s big state-funded cam- students, lower than any of silvery, while the top is a deep, hearty green. the larger flagship state Two students at North Carolina Central University walk on campus “Fraser fir is the Cadillac of the Christmas tree,” he puses, thousands of col- in August wearing their masks at the start of the Fall semester. lege students have been universities. says. Most of the smaller Many students living on campus described the campus as “dead” For many, Christmas trees go up as soon as jack- diagnosed with COVID, at with them not being able to attend football games, events on Appalachian State Univer- HBCUs have done a good o’-lanterns are packed away. Families pile into cars, job at keeping a lid on campus, or chill with their friends in the student union. Not to men- crank Bing Crosby and head to the mountains to find sity, East Carolina Univer- sity, UNC Chapel Hill and COVID, something that’s tion, NCCU’s fall break was canceled and the Ultimate Home- their perfect tree. While mom and dad argue about attributable to the cam- coming Experience was moved online. whether a 9-foot-tree will fit through the front door, N.C. State, close to 5,200 students, staff and con- puses’ small sizes, honor kids line up for hot cider and pet farm animals. codes and for some, the them to campus. dents the option to come “We’re ready!” dad will yell, and the kids come run- tractors have been dia- gnosed with the virus, pressure on first-genera- Spike at NC colleges back on campus in mid-Au- Please see PANDEMIC |2B causing the schools to go tion college students carry- North Carolina Central gust. all virtual for instruction. ing their families’ dreams University with 8,078 stu- The semester at NCCU What’s been less noticed and expectations with dents enrolled, gave stu- Please see NC BLACK| 2B «RIDES Chevrolet Tahoe grows out with upgrades and more power By Winfred Cross a 120.9 - inch wheelbase, suspension and lower load- mation displayed. To the SPECIAL TO THE POST up 4.9 inches from last ing floor height. right is a 10.2-inch high- year. 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