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Leaders work on improving Black maternal health Transferred out and she’s back again Women’s basketball star family, with a dad who loved teaching and watching the game and an Stephanie Watts returns older brother who played at UNC- to UNC for her 6th year Pembroke. She also grew up in Wesley Chapel, North Carolina, 30 minutes By Ryan Wilcox outside of Charlotte and a brisk two Senior Writer and a half hours from Chapel Hill. [email protected] By the time she was named a McDonald’s All-American as a senior Stephanie Watts says she’s never in high school, averaging 29.1 points, heard of another college athlete who 8.8 rebounds and 6.1 assists, she’d transferred back to a school they’d left. already been committed to the Tar Neither has her father, Stephen. Or Heels for nearly two years. No other her head coach, Courtney Banghart. school was really ever in contention. Or her team’s sports information “Everybody recruited her,” her dad director, Dana Gelin. Google searches said. “But once North Carolina got for things like “college transfer return involved, there was no close second.” to school” and “athlete transfer to Watts described her recruitment same school” came up empty. Such a by longtime UNC head coach and person probably exists, but they’re not national champion Sylvia Hatchell easy to find. as “a blessing.” When she arrived on That means that Watts is one of, campus she fell in love with Chapel if not the first of her kind: Someone Hill: the student body, the constant who missed her team — or her home, DTH/PARKER BROWN energy of Franklin Street, the or both — so much that she couldn’t hallowed Carmichael Arena where Jackie Carr-Martinez’s experience with a white doctor made her wary of returning the next day to give birth to her child. stand the idea of playing her sixth year she practiced and played. of college basketball anywhere else. Her first two seasons, individually The team is North Carolina. The at least, were just as divine. Though Momnibus bridges gaps in health care place is Chapel Hill. The 23-year-old the Tar Heels went 14-18 in 2015-16, guard says after a career of wins and Watts set a UNC first-year record losses, game-winners and injuries, with 76 made 3-pointers and she was By Praveena Somasundaram U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood (D – I.L.), U.S. Sen. Cory program records and head coach named ACC Freshman of the Year. Audience Engagement Editor Booker (D – N.J.) and members of the Black Maternal exits, there’s nowhere else she’d want As a sophomore, Watts set an ACC [email protected] Health Caucus, introduced the Black Maternal Health to end her academic journey. record with 10 made triples against Momnibus Act of 2021. “It just didn’t feel right to finish Charleston Southern and finished The night before she had her first child in March of Made up of 12 bills total, the Black Maternal Health anywhere but UNC,” Watts said. top 10 in the conference in points, 2013, Jacqueline Carr-Martinez went to a hospital in Momnibus is intended to comprehensively address minutes, rebounds, blocks and steals. Connecticut because she was cramping and in pain. America’s maternal health crisis. ‘There was no close second’ But she missed the final Carr-Martinez, now a Greensboro resident, was “The hour for bold action has arrived and bold action 23 years old and living in Connecticut when she was is what the Momnibus represents,” Underwood said in Watts grew up in a basketball SEE WATTS, PAGE 6 pregnant for the first time. She identifies as African a February press conference introducing it. American, Indian and Guyanese. Carr-Martinez said she Adams co-founded the Black Maternal Health Caucus, was examined by a white doctor who didn’t warn her of a group within the House of Representatives focused on the pain she’d experience while he checked her cervix. improving maternal health for Black women. “I just remember completely being in shock for how “The time to end preventable maternal mortality and bad the pain was,” Carr-Martinez said. “And then finally close racial and ethnic disparities in outcomes is long he was like, ‘Oh you can just put your hands under your overdue,” Adams’ website reads. back if you’re in pain.’” When Carr-Martinez arrived at the hospital in labor, After that interaction, Carr-Martinez said she was scared the same doctor came to help her. Despite urging from to go back to the hospital the next day, even as she went into nurses, she refused to push until another doctor arrived. active labor and counted the time between contractions. “All I kept thinking was I didn’t want this person to Research from recent years suggests that Carr- bring my child into the world,” Carr-Martinez said. Martinez’s fear was not unfounded. Black women in the Mothers of color, particularly Black mothers, state have a maternal mortality rate nearly double that nationwide die at a higher rate than white mothers, of white women, according to a 2014-15 Morbidity and according to research between 2007 and 2016 from the Mortality Weekly Report cited by the North Carolina Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Additionally, Medical Journal in January 2020. they face other health issues and discrimination during Organizations, activists and lawmakers, including and post-pregnancy. Rep. Alma Adams of North Carolina’s 12th Congressional “I definitely think all doctors should be completely District, have been pushing for action to address the knowledgeable on the culture of their patients, no matter country’s maternal health crisis. what culture or background they have,” Carr-Martinez said. The objective of the fourth bill in the Black Maternal DTH FILE/YATES MCCONNELL A new bill in the U.S. House Health Momnibus Act of 2021 is to grow UNC graduate student guard Stephanie Watts (5) goes for a layup during game against High Point on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020 in Carmichael Arena. On Feb. 8, U.S. Rep. Alma Adams (D – N.C.), alongside SEE PROTECTING, PAGE 7 How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me. 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Subscribe now at dailytarheel.com/subscribe The Daily Tar Heel News Wednesday, February 24, 2021 3 GYMNASTICS Elizabeth Culton’s ‘happy place’ is the balance beam UNC has been her or 20-minute drive to UNC. Culton’s family lived close to Chapel Hill, as dream school since she both her parents and older brothers was around 9 attended UNC. Her family brought her to UNC gymnastics meets from the By Kaitlyn Schmidt moment she started competing, which Staff Writer lit a fire inside of her. She immediately [email protected] knew it was the place for her. Fast-forward to high school, where It’s one thing to grow a love for Culton continued to work hard so she Chapel Hill while you’re a student could stand out to colleges, consistently at UNC. qualifying for Junior Olympic Nationals It’s another to be born with and earning prestigious awards in all Carolina Blue blood in your veins. four events. To make frequent pilgrimages to In ninth grade, Culton started Kenan Stadium and the Dean E. building her relationship with Galvin Smith Center before you even have at UNC through phone and FaceTime a concept of what college is. calls and recruiting trips. During her At around age 9, Elizabeth Culton official college visits, Chapel Hill was attended her first UNC gymnastics her first destination. meet with her parents — both In the scouting process, Galvin was DTH FILE/PARKER BROWN of whom are Tar Heel alumni. always looking for athletes that fit his Elizabeth Culton performs her beam routine during the meet against the University of New Hampshire on Feb. 17, 2020. Awestruck, she leaned over to her “puzzle.” As an all-around gymnast who grandfather, Bill Cobey, one of UNC’s was exceptional on the beam, Culton Marie Denick, the gymnastics team’s baking. Without a gym to practice in, mistakes. I know at the end of the past athletic directors, and said the was just the piece he was looking for. interim head coach for the last seven she did workouts and ran at home to day, she’s having fun and performing wishful words that would one day Following her visit, Galvin told months, said. “But who she is as a maintain her strength and flexibility. not just for herself, but for the team.” come true. Culton he would hold a place on the person speaks so much louder.” Culton started off this season on These pre-meet rituals must be “I told him I wanted to be a UNC team for her. To hear her coaches and teammates a different foot, not only because of helping Culton so far this season, as gymnast,” Culton said. Her mind was made up. tell it, Culton is not only a hard worker COVID-19, but because Galvin retired she notched a 9.950 on the balance About 10 years later, Culton is not “As soon as he told me that, I and a great performer, but also a great in June after 39 years with UNC. beam during her very first meet of only on the UNC gymnastics team realized there was no reason to go teammate. She is excited to see her Denick, the assistant coach from years the campaign, establishing herself as — she was also named East Atlantic visit anywhere else,” Culton said. team’s success, and they are excited to past, stepped up to lead the team into one of the best in the country. The Gymnastics League (EAGL) Rookie see hers in return. To them, her good the 2021 season. very next meet, she matched it. With of the Year after her 2020 season and ‘So many accolades’ nature and dedication to the team “Derek did a really good job an average score of 9.935, Culton is is now one of the top-ranked balance helped foster the positive environment handing the reins over to Marie,” the second-ranked balance beam beam performers in the country. After arriving at her dream school, the coaches hoped to create within their Culton said. “Marie has done well collegiate gymnast in the country. Her talent, confidence and passion Culton quickly adjusted to her new gymnastics program. this year stepping into the position, Though the balance beam for the program have not only made environment, both inside and “She’s always cheering for her especially with the season being is typically the event that most Culton a standout in the gym, but outside of the gym. Whether it was teammates,” teammate Sophie different because of COVID. She’s gymnasts dread, it has always been one at her dream school itself. on the beam or in the books, Culton Silverstein said. “If days aren’t going had to deal with a lot of changes.” where Culton has most excelled. just kept excelling. well, she’ll step aside and talk to them Though Galvin introduced Culton “For some reason, it’s my happy ‘The kind of gymnast you want In her first season of competition, and help them get through it.” to UNC, Culton also has a special place,” she said. “Whenever I mount to have’ Culton placed first in 13 individual bond with Denick — especially in the the beam and start doing my routine, events, was on the podium for 13 ‘Do what you know how to do’ moments right before her events. I get in the zone. It’s the one event Culton’s gymnastics journey other individual events, earned four “Right before she goes, it’s always that I feel the most confident on.” started small with Mommy and Me All-EAGL honors and set personal Though her rookie season was cut a fist bump, and we look at each Culton set a goal the day she stepped classes when she was just 2 years old. records for every one of her events: short due to COVID-19, Culton stayed other right in the eyes, and I tell into Carmichael Arena to watch She developed a love for her sport and bars, vault, beam and floor. motivated throughout quarantine. her, ‘Just have fun, and do what you UNC gymnastics. She has worked started competing at age 7, building All of these achievements Like most bored college students, know how to do,’” Denick said. “In to achieve it every day since, and the her way up to her eventual training culminated in her greatest honor of she took up some new hobbies, that moment, it doesn’t matter if she blue blood in her veins has fueled the program of 24 hours a week at Bull all: EAGL Rookie of the Year. including reading historical fiction and gets a personal record, or she makes hard work, resilience, adaptability and City Gymnastics. Meanwhile, Culton worked just as determination that it has taken for her “The coaches at Bull City were hard in the classroom to pursue her to secure her impressive reputation. producing young women who still had psychology and pre-nursing double “There are so many accolades to her gymnastics She is the personification of the phrase a love for gymnastics. It wasn’t a chore or major. She maintained above a 3.8 Tar Heel born and bred. a job for them — they had a joy in doing GPA the entire year and was named and academic careers. But who she is as a person And even after her gymnastics their sport,” former UNC gymnastics to the EAGL All-Academic Team, as speaks so much louder.” career is over, she’ll be a Tar Heel head coach Derek Galvin said. “That’s well as the ACC Academic Honor Roll. for life. the kind of gymnast you want to have.” “There are so many accolades to Marie Denick Bull City is in Durham, only a 15- her gymnastics and academic careers,” Interim UNC gymnastics head coach Twitter: @dailytarheel

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Legacy of CHPD’s first Black detective remains Theodore Cole is remembered Cole’s promotion was one of many firsts for Det. Cole is also honored annually at the Orange Black leadership in Chapel Hill. In May of that County Peace Officer Memorial Service on May 15. over 50 years after his death year, Lee was elected as Chapel Hill’s first Black Cole has few surviving relatives, but mayor and Braxton Foushee as the first Black officers at the CHPD remember him as one By Bethany Lee member of Carrboro’s Board of Aldermen. of their own. Staff Writer “For the first time, the Chapel Hill Black “The police family here is the majority of the [email protected] community started to feel some sense of hope that family he has left,” Mecimore said. the problems within that section of town, which Since Cole’s death, Mecimore said the CHPD A shadowbox in the lobby of the Chapel Hill is the west section of Chapel Hill, would finally has worked to improve relations with minority Police Department holds a small plaque, a photo get some attention from both Chapel Hill and communities in the area with initiatives and a detective badge for Theodore Roosevelt Carrboro,” Lee said. “It was kind of a revelation like diversity recruiting, the crisis unit and Cole Jr., who was killed in 1969 on the day of his to them to believe that finally they would have a community engagement. promotional ceremony to become Chapel Hill’s voice within government.” “What those who remember him will remember first Black detective. Cole was posthumously promoted to the rank is that he was a trailblazer,” Lee said. “He was On June 4, 1969, Cole was working in his yard of detective at the First Annual Orange County expected to be a model policeman who would when Amos Baldwin drove to his house and fired Peace Officers Memorial Service in May 2012. A allow people to feel comfortable with more Black a 12-gauge shotgun at him without provocation, year later, his name was added to the National Law policemen serving the community.” according to archives from the Chapel Hill Weekly. Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C. Cole attended Wake County schools and served Baldwin had been arrested by Cole multiple times, “We recognized his sacrifice and the work he had in the Air Force for four years after his graduation. and reportedly still held a grudge for a speeding done to get to detective at the time,” Investigations He was an officer with CHPD for four years before violation in December. Cole was 26 years old. Captain Joshua Mecimore of CHPD, who his death. “It was a sad day in Chapel Hill,” Howard Lee, researched Cole’s case in order to submit his name “Any time a policeman falls in the line of duty, we PHOTO COURTESY OF CPT. MECIMORE, CHPD mayor of Chapel Hill from 1969-75, said. to the Washington memorial, said. have an obligation to keep them in our memories Theodore Cole Jr. was set to become Baldwin was convicted of first-degree murder He said members of the CHPD Honor Guard and not let their names fade away,” Lee said. CHPD’s first Black detective in 1969 and sentenced to life in prison. He was granted went to Washington on the day Cole’s name was when he was killed on the day of his parole in 1988 and died in 2001. added to the memorial. Twitter: @DTHCityState ceremony. He is honored annually Lee was never able to meet Cole, but heard about him through the police chief at the time, at the Orange County Peace Officer William Blake. “What those who remember him will remember is that he was a Memorial Service. Lee said Blake’s strong endorsement of Cole as an officer who never shied away from adversity trailblazer.” DTH ONLINE: Read more about made him confident that the promotion to Howard Lee detective was well-deserved. the Theodore Cole case at Chapel Hill mayor, 1969-75 www.dailytarheel.com. Panel discusses Geer Cemetery, preserving Black spaces Durham’s historically people,” Sturkey said. “These were the people that actually put their Black cemetery sparks shovels into the dirt, that stacked the discussions of neglect bricks, that hammered the nails, that unloaded the lumber, that drove the By Niharika Vattikonda wagons, that raised the children, that Staff Writer rolled the tobacco.” [email protected] The cemetery was ignored over multiple decades, Sturkey said, Black cemeteries and burial which is part of a larger history of grounds in North Carolina and injustice and inequitable distribution across the U.S. have historically been of resources. neglected and poorly documented. But Thorpe said the preservation of local community organizations and Black cemeteries is a national issue, state government partners are paving not just one that is specific to North the way toward more recognition and Carolina or Durham. resources for Black cemeteries. She said two years ago, the African The Friends of Geer Cemetery American Heritage Commission hosted a virtual panel Saturday to and the State Office of Archaeology discuss the long-standing inequality launched an initiative to preserve that surrounds historical Black spaces, Black cemeteries and burial grounds. like that of Durham’s historic Geer Thorpe said one of the initiative’s pilot Cemetery. The panel was moderated projects is a push for Milton, North by James Stewart, the vice president Carolina, to steward a Black cemetery. of Friends of Geer Cemetery. She said the initiative has also The panelists for the event were created a form that will allow DTH/NIHARIKA VATTIKONDA UNC history professor William individuals to input information The Friends of Geer Cemetery hosted a virtual panel to discuss the importance of preserving historical Black spaces Sturkey, N.C. African American about Black cemeteries. The goal of and the inequality surrounding them. Heritage Commission director Angela this form is twofold: to document Thorpe, N.C. Central University head Black cemeteries, which have often cemeteries. He said understanding Hines said public spaces offer spaces. She said public spaces archivist and public historian Andre not been well-documented, at the personal histories and narratives an environment to have difficult can also provide insight about Vann and Stagville Memorial Project state level and to distribute resources can help reconstruct a new narrative conversations about the past who communities should elect, director Vanessa Hines. to Black cemeteries more equitably. about African American life. with community members. The particularly leaders who truly At the start of the discussion, “This is equity work, right?” Vann recommended looking at minimal barriers to information understand the local history. Sturkey discussed the historical Thorpe said. “And doing this equity historical receipts, documentation and opportunities to engage all It’s important for people to context of Geer Cemetery, which work actually pushes communities that includes census records, marriage five senses when learning provide recognize that they are a part of is almost as old as the city of towards justice work.” certificates, death certificates and a chance for people to engage with history, Hines said. Creating space for Durham and was built at the end of Vann discussed how communities funeral programs, among others. their local history. reflection about the past’s impact on Reconstruction in 1877. can document and preserve He said this documented evidence Hines said positive contributions the present can help build agency and “Many of the people who actually cemeteries and the histories of provides more insight into the lives to the community, such as activism support for driving change, she said. built Durham itself were Black the individuals buried in those of the individuals who are buried in and community organizing, should a cemetery. be celebrated in those public Twitter: @nihavattikonda

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Children’s author chosen as Piedmont Laureate

Council, Orange County Arts time that she saw a book with a Black Lyons has been an advocate for Commission and United Arts Council main character. representation in children’s literature. of Raleigh & Wake County. “It wasn’t until I was in third “The idea that everybody should Each year, a Piedmont Laureate grade that I saw a book called ‘Roll of be able to see themselves in children’s is chosen for a one-year period Thunder, Hear My Cry,’” Lyons said. literature is really powerful, as well as where they conduct activities across “That was my first time seeing a Black its ability to shape our perceptions of Durham, Orange and Wake counties. girl on the cover of a children’s book.” ourselves,” Menzel said. These activities range from reading at Lyons said she was too young to fully Since she works with children libraries to hosting writing workshops, understand how meaningful the book across the Piedmont from a variety of but this year’s activities are all being was to her back then, but now is able backgrounds, Lyons is using her role to hosted virtually due to COVID-19. to reflect on its significance in her life. highlight diversity in children’s literature. Lyons, who lives in Raleigh, said “It planted a seed in me that later “I get to build bridges, and to connecting virtually has been a ballooned into being a children’s book really celebrate it in different ways,” pleasant surprise. author and wanting to make sure all Lyons said. “And so one of my goals “I think even more kids are being kids can see themselves in books,” is to make sure that we’re celebrating able to be heard through being able to she said. “All kids should know they the beautiful diversity of who we are just type their thoughts like a stream deserve to be the stars of stories.” through children’s books.” of consciousness when we’re going After 17 years as a writer, Lyons has As she continues to empower others through certain lessons,” Lyons said. published over 15 children’s books with through her mission, Lyons is placing an PHOTO COURTESY OF MELISSA R. CAMPBELL Lyons’ passion for children’s people of color serving main character emphasis on the often overlooked lack Author Kelly Starling Lyons is 2021’s Piedmont Laureate, a program books developed at a young age and roles. As Piedmont Laureate, Lyons of representation in children’s literature. co-sponsored by the Orange County Arts Commission among others. later inspired her to find her voice said she hopes to highlight her mission “When you don’t see yourself, when through writing. for children everywhere. you feel invisible in books, when you By Macon Porterfield in the Piedmont region of North “I really loved storytelling,” Lyons “My mission as an author is to feel that books are strangers instead of Staff Writer Carolina with the goal of increasing said. “I would spend a lot of time at center black heroes, to celebrate friends, that can be really devastating,” [email protected] awareness and recognizing the library, and we had books pretty family friendship and heritage and Lyons said. “So I want to make sure excellence in the literary arts. much all around.” show all kids the storyteller they hold that kids know that they matter. And Children’s book author Kelly The Piedmont Laureate is As a Black woman, Lyons said she inside,” Lyons said. their voices matter.” Starling Lyons is serving as the 2021 co-sponsored by the City of Raleigh rarely saw characters who looked like Orange County Arts Commission Piedmont Laureate, a program based Arts Commission, Durham Arts her. She said she remembers the first Assistant Emilie Menzel said Twitter: @elizmacon Event to feature scholars who address racism with art

By Mika Travis “I think art really has a way to border, and her presentation will Staff Writer capture folks’s imagination as a kind of highlight this work. [email protected] entry point to some of these challenging • Sonny Kelly is a storyteller, speaker conversations.” De Marco said. and comedian who will be looking at Local artists and scholars will “ARTivism” will feature five the idea of storytelling from a Black come together for “ARTivism”, an panelists: Charlie Dupee, Michael perspective in his presentation. event that will highlight how art Figueroa, Susan Page, Sonny Kelly • Jacqueline Lawton is a can be used to discuss and confront and Jacqueline Lawton. Special playwright, dramaturg at PlayMakers racism, on Wednesday. guest CJ Suitt will open the event Repertory Company and an associate The Race, Racism and Racial with a spoken-word poem. professor in the UNC department Equity (R3) Symposium will hold The event will continue with of dramatic art. She will be talking its third virtual event, “ARTivism: seven to nine minute presentations about the plays she has written and Using Arts-based Scholarship to from each panelist: how she uses theater to address Interrogate and Dismantle Racism,” • Charlie Dupee is a visual artist racial issues. on Feb. 24 from 3 to 4:30 p.m. and MFA candidate at the UNC “All the speakers that we have “I’m excited for folks to be thinking department of art and art history. are really going to be speaking to us about art in that way,” Allison De His works deal with futurism and from… their different backgrounds Marco, the co-convener of the R3 intersectionality. within the context of their work, Symposium said, “to have some ideas • Michael Figueroa is an in terms of the things that they PHOTO COURTESY OF SUSAN HARBAGE PAGE of the ways that scholars and artists ethnomusicologist whose works do,” Travis Albritton, the event’s A piece from Susan Harbage Page’s U.S. - Mexico Border Project titled ‘Objects and researchers have been looking at focus on the Southwest Asian and moderator, said. from the Borderlands’ is displayed in Greensboro Project Space in 2016. visual arts and music to really delve North African region. He plans to At the end of the event, there will be a into what’s happening in our culture discuss works within different genres 25-to-30 minute discussion, which will will engage with the ways that different “Because, while you may not be able around race and racism.” of music that deal with post-9/11 include a question and answer session forms of art can be used to spark to change someone’s mind, you can The goal of the event is to highlight Arab Americans. with the panelists. Some questions have conversations about race and racism. tap into their heart. And if you can the many ways in which the panelists • Susan Harbage Page is a been pre-prepared, and others will be “I also want audiences to walk tap into someone’s heart, you create have used art to address racism and photographer who takes pictures of taken from the audience. away knowing that we can actually empathy and build community.” to foster a discussion on art as a tool objects that have been left behind Overall, organizers of the event hope address issues of social justice and to address wider issues. by immigrants at the US-Mexico that students and the local community change through art,” Lawton said. Twitter: @mikaltrav Black students react to ABC’s first Black ‘Bachelor’ By Hannah Kaufman interracial dating show, and I think I think that it is reactive rather than Rachael Kirkconnell. just a straight white man dating Staff Writer that the representation of women of proactive, 100 percent,” Kemal said. With many followers of “The a straight white woman. I feel [email protected] different backgrounds is also good, “I think a year’s worth of protests and Bachelor” putting a magnifying like by somewhat including because historically what we usually social uprisings probably led to their glass to the show’s past, Kumi said various different ethnicities and From roses to thorns, the see love stories or love shows from is decision of having one.” it’s more important than ever that backgrounds and even sexual reputation of ABC’s reality the white male or white female gaze.” Aside from increased racial everyone who represents the brand orientations, they could really TV show, “The Bachelor,” was While Kumi emphasized the awareness, Kemal said he thinks is adequately educated. harness a whole new target scratched this season after importance of this representation, that part of the reason that “The “From some of these situations market.” featuring Matt James as the first she believes that the rise of the Bachelor” hasn’t featured a Black with Chris Harrison, it was clear Outside of just “The Bachelor,” Black bachelor, causing students Black Lives Matter movement man as the bachelor before is it’s not even lack of awareness, Kemal said he predicts that there of color to raise questions about was the major catalyst for James’ because the show’s target audience it’s just ignorance at that point,” will be a public reckoning for racial equity and representation casting, rather than the show is white women. Kumi said. “So making sure that more diversity in all areas of the in the media. taking accountability on their own. “In terms of creating racial equity everyone who represents the entertainment industry. Senior Caitlyn Kumi has “I think it’s just that with on the show, I don’t even think brand has this diversity, equity and “I think in reality TV and in watched “The Bachelor,” a show everything that happened over the that’s necessarily possible because inclusion training so they’re aware everything in the show business, from that began in 2002, on and off summer, and then how consumers of the target market for that show,” of the history and the impact of plays on Broadway to big Blockbuster this season — but her opinion of television shows are just kind of Kemal said. “... So what market are the brand. You can’t help where movies, there’s going to be a push for about the implications of choosing demanding more diversity of the you really trying to hit? Middle-aged you’re born but you can choose to POC actors and actresses, directors, James as this season’s Bachelor has networks, I think that’s more of the White women. And who would they educate yourself.” writers and artists to have an remained constant. changing climate in America, rather rather see on the show? People who Looking forward, Kemal said one equitable chance at even getting to “I think there’s always going to than the show recognizing that they resemble themselves.” way “The Bachelor” can better their those stages,” Kemal said. “There’s be an advancement of culture just need to do anything,” Kumi said. This highly catered audience is show is by pushing for a new, more the conversation about the barriers with having representation and First-year Yonas Kemal not the only problem with the show, inclusive target audience. that they face even getting there in recognition, because Black love is emphasized that James was chosen both students said. This season, “I think over time, there the first place, and then actually being not always necessarily portrayed,” more out of societal pressure than a long-standing host Chris Harrison definitely can be a way to make it represented in a fair light is a whole Kumi said. “It is pretty remarkable positive internal agenda. temporarily stepped down after seem a little more representative different conversation.” regardless because 50, 60 years ago “I think it’s good, obviously, that defending past racist comments and of the actual dating scheme of it wouldn’t be possible to have an they have a Black bachelor, though actions by “The Bachelor” contestant America,” Kemal said. “It’s not Twitter: @_hannahkaufman 6 Wednesday, February 24, 2021 Black History Month Edition Watts cements her legacy at UNC Continued from Page 1 own knee injury amid accusations ‘Just following my heart’ of injury mismanagement; the girl five games of the season thanks to who’d fallen in love with UNC and In spring 2019, before she ever injury, the same injury that kept her was now left wondering how much departed Chapel Hill for greener out for all of 2017-18. it loved her back. pastures, Watts was getting shots up Still, Watts seemed intent on “It was definitely tough,” she in Carmichael Arena when she was finishing out her career in Chapel said. “But I think one of the biggest approached by a new face. Hill. For the first time since her factors that went into it wasn’t even It was Banghart, the former arrival, North Carolina made the basketball, honestly.” Princeton head coach who’d just NCAA Tournament in her redshirt Watts said that the program’s been tasked with rebuilding North junior year, albeit losing to California uncertainty aside, she was ready for Carolina women’s basketball. The two in the first round. a change of scenery. A public policy exchanged pleasantries, and Banghart From the outside looking in, degree in hand, she started looking told Watts that even though she was things were trending up, and Watts for grad school programs she could transferring, she’d always be welcome would enter her final season with a finish in one year, in places she back as an alum of the program. chance to leave a legacy on both team would want to live. She decided on “I was so conflicted,” she said. “Like, and individual levels. USC, setting her sights on a master’s ‘Wow, she seems like such a great Then, the investigation happened. in entrepreneurship and innovation. person, and I would love to play for “It wasn’t a dissatisfaction with a coach like her.’ But I’m like, ‘Geez, DTH FILE/NASH CONSING A program in flux North Carolina,” Stephen said. “It I already kind of made up my mind.’” Tar Heel guard Stephanie Watts (5) steals the ball during UNC’s 64-51 win was just an opportunity to try and Watts kept those few interactions against NC State at Reynolds Coliseum on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019 in Raleigh. On April 4, 2019, the Washington do something different.” with Banghart in mind when it came Post published a story with allegations But it wasn’t long before Stephanie’s time to leave USC a year later. When dad, and they agreed that playing talented players in North Carolina that Hatchell made a series of offensive California sojourn turned sour. Watts Watts entered the transfer portal, for the Orange would be a great history, is a complicated one. Some will comments, including one suggesting played exactly four games with the Joanne Aluka-White, a Tar Heel opportunity. She decided to sleep on mention her 3-point records; others, her players would get “hanged from Trojans before finding out she had a assistant who recruited Watts when it. Watts woke up in the middle of that her all-around game. Coaches point to trees with nooses” if their performance cyst in her knee that needed surgery. she coached at UNC-Charlotte, put night, still thinking over one of the her tenacity battling back from injury, didn’t improve. She spent the next few months in her in contact with Banghart, who biggest decisions of her career. while teammates know her as a beacon The story also included allegations rehab before COVID-19 hit the United wasn’t immediately sure what to make The next morning, though, she of positivity. from parents that Hatchell pressured States, prematurely leaving Watts with of the situation. called her dad and told him she’d Above all, though, Stephanie Watts multiple Tar Heels to play through a lot of time to think about her future. “I didn’t really actively recruit her made up her mind: she wanted to will be remembered as the woman injury; in one instance, an unnamed Because of the injury, she’d have back, because I didn’t know what return to North Carolina. who left Chapel Hill to find herself player found out she’d suffered a torn another year of eligibility, another I was really getting into,” Banghart It was just an instinct she had, she and couldn’t do it until she returned tendon in her knee, presumably after chance to end her college career on said. “I didn’t know much about her. told him, a feeling that she needed to back where it all started. a team doctor told her otherwise. the right note. Was she a part of the tumultuousness go home. Home. Two weeks later, Hatchell resigned, “(USC) was a beautiful place to be, (of the past regime) or not?” Stephen told her he’d had the “I think it was me just following leaving a program that had had the I had a great experience,” she said. With some questions lingering, same feeling all night long. my heart, really,” she said. “It same head coach since 1986 in flux. “But after I got hurt there, going Watts did her due diligence exploring “After I got off the phone, my gut didn’t feel right to finish my career A handful of players transferred through another injury, I just wanted other options, with the most serious just kept telling me, ‘She needs to go anywhere but UNC.” elsewhere. Among those transfers to go back home.” contender being Syracuse. As she back to Carolina,’” he said. was Watts, the girl who’d suffered her mulled her options, she called her The legacy of Watts, one of the most Twitter: @ryantwilcox

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Living histories from Black residents

By Kayla Guilliams spot for kids, their parents and, in platform, meaning residents are Staff Writer the early 1960s, for those fighting for encouraged to respond to what they see [email protected] Black freedom in Chapel Hill. on the website and continually share It has become a symbol of their stories about the community. Kathy Atwater is a Chapel Hill community sustenance and struggle, Della Pollock, Mellon project native. Born and raised in the according to the project’s website. director with the Marian Cheek Northside Community, she grew up “A lot of history has been made at Jackson Center, said history projects with her neighbors and has witnessed that rock wall,” Atwater, co-chairperson like these help sustain communities the changes her community has faced of the Community Review Board, said. and allow residents to tell their over the years. From the Rock Wall provides a stories as they want to be heard. Her stories of home, community platform for residents to tell their stories “The site is about listening,” and Northside are some of many orally through recorded interviews, and Pollock said. “And what it has been told through From the Rock Wall, an also hosts photos, documents and maps. like for me is to really learn what oral history project and interactive Chaitra Powell, co-chairperson of listening means and how listening website built for Black Chapel Hill- the Community Review Board, said is not a passive activity, but it’s a Carrboro to tell their living histories. the project’s main driving principle is vigorously active one where you It was developed by the Marian to uplift the voices of past and present really make yourself available to Cheek Jackson Center for Saving Black residents. what someone else has to say.” DTH/NICK PACINI and Making History and its “The area around UNC is a According to the project website, The Marian Creek Justice Center has worked with the community to Community Review Board, with complicated place and there is this oral histories were chosen to drive the create fromtherockwall.org, a site showcasing Black history in Chapel Hill. funding support from the National legacy of exclusion and erasure,” project because they are a way to uplift haven’t always been as accepting of “It was an opportunity to share Endowment for the Humanities Powell said. “Telling this history histories that often don’t make it into historical content in this form.” what I had learned from my and the Mellon Foundation. part is just one more way that these books or classrooms and help bring Atwater said she thinks the project parents and from other elders in the The project is named after a low residents are saying we’re here, we’ve histories into the present moment. is important because it allows stories community, and just to share what rock wall built in the 1930s that sits been here and we have stories.” Powell said having a repository of to be told that may otherwise not be growing up in this area was all about,” at the corner of Cotton and McDade The project hosts stories on a variety stories in this format is pretty rare. and helps neighbors reminisce over Atwater said. “I feel very blessed to be streets, at the front edge of the of topics, from food and celebrations to “Not everybody puts everything that both fond and not-so-fond memories. a part of this community.” Bradshaw/Patterson family home. civil rights and the Freedom Movement. is important on paper,” Powell said. She said getting to tell her stories as The wall quickly became a gathering The project is also built to be an open “But historically traditional repositories part of the project was inspiring. Twitter: @kaylaguilliams Protecting Black Two legacies meet in mothers’ health Chris Holliday Meet Morehead-Cain Scholar, he was just granddad. It was only when he went to the opening of the Harvey B. Gantt Center in football player and grandson Charlotte in 2009 that he began to realize the of Harvey Gantt scope of what his grandfather had done. “I did not know any of that,” Holliday By PJ Morales said. “You’re such a young kid, so you just see Assistant Sports Editor him as this hero for a different reason, when [email protected] everybody else sees him as a hero because he was able to set so many trails.” Christopher Holliday is the heir to two dis- But knowing all that doesn’t change the tinct, important legacies. fact that, to Holliday, Gantt is still granddad. His father, Corey Holliday, was a wide receiver Holliday said he calls him almost weekly, with on the UNC football team from 1989-1993, with topics of discussion ranging from school, life and his 2,447 receiving yards while playing under sports — despite his son-in-law and grandson, head coach Mack Brown placing him fourth on Gantt is still a diehard Clemson fan — to the UNC’s all-time receiving yards list. The younger ongoing racial justice movement in the United Holliday has fulfilled this legacy by coming to States. Gantt was proud to see masses of people UNC as both a Morehead-Cain Scholar and a take a stand for an issue to which he’s dedicated walk-on defensive back on the football team, his whole life, his grandson said. playing under the same coach as his father. “Obviously, it’s not all there yet, but I think The second one may be harder to pick he’s happy to see America and the rest of up at first glance, but it’s just as powerful. the world stepping towards the right side,” DTH/PARKER BROWN Holliday’s maternal grandfather is Harvey Holliday said. Gantt, the first Black student to gain accep- Jackie Carr-Martinez poses with a photo of her family in her home in Greensboro on Feb. 23, 2021. Holliday’s father, a first-generation college tance to Clemson University and the first student himself, said it was surreal to see his Continued from Page 1 hemorrhage than others, according to Stanford Black mayor of Charlotte, N.C. Holliday’s son being coached at his alma mater by Brown, Medicine. Research published in 2017 by the grandmother and Harvey’s wife, Lucinda, the same man who taught him so much. and diversify the professionals who support clinical journal American Family Physician was the first Black woman accepted to He also said he credits Gantt, his father- women immediately before and after birth states that postpartum hemorrhaging causes 12 Clemson. By just coming to UNC and seeking in-law and conference rival, with showing so they can receive “culturally congruent percent of maternal deaths in the U.S. an education, Holliday is fulfilling that legacy. his grandson that when you put your mind maternity care and support.” Though racial and ethnic disparities in “(Gantt) has always instilled education as to something, the sky’s the limit. The fifth bill of the Momnibus targets data pregnancy-related deaths have persisted the biggest priority in our family because that’s “When I was growing up, I was still trying collection processes and quality measures to through time, most of them are preventable, what’s able to separate many African Americans,” to figure out what I could actually do, what better understand causes of the U.S. maternal according to the CDC. De Los Santos recovered, Holliday said. “They’re disproportionately disad- was possible for me,” Corey said. “But I think health crisis and inform appropriate solutions. but she said she’s heard one story after another vantaged in many of the situations they begin in, (Christopher) having his granddad, and the The Momnibus also addresses maternal from friends and women she’s worked with and education can help them rise to reach the things his granddad did, I think he saw from vaccinations, payment models for maternity through Action NC that are more dire. greatest successes possible.” the get-go that, as long as he worked hard care and maternal health care and support for “Those are the stories that are impactful,” Gantt gained national prominence when and did the things he could control, he could incarcerated moms. she said. “They need to be told.” he challenged longtime Republican incum- do whatever he wanted to do.” Action NC works with women to advocate bent and staunch segregationist Jesse Helms Local advocacy for change for overall improvement to maternal health in the 1990 North Carolina Senate election. Twitter: @dailytarheel outcomes in addition to providing education He was the target of the now-infamous In tandem with the Momnibus, grassroots and support for women of color. “White Hands” advertisement, in which organizations Action NC is working to improve This aspect of Action NC’s movement, De Helms’ campaign claimed that Gantt sup- Black maternal health and reproductive Los Santos said, is important because it directly ported racial quotas that would see suppos- health access and education in the state. empowers women of color, helping them edly underqualified Black workers hired for Action NC’s movement, called the Race and understand how to advocate for themselves. jobs over white people with greater qualifi- Gender Equity Initiative aims to uplift women of cations. Gantt would go on to narrowly lose color and create momentum for policy change. “It’s not just about policy,” De Los Santos said. “It’s about treating us as human beings.” that election. For Gloria De Los Santos, director of Action “(Helms was) someone who was accused NC’s Durham office, the work to improve Though Action NC’s RAGE Initiative began in 2019 to address the disparities women of of having disdain for the Black community, maternal health outcomes brings back and I would say that he did have disdain for memories of her own experiences as a mother. color face, De Los Santos said the decision to also focus on maternal health became clear as the Black community,” UNC history professor De Los Santos had her second daughter at a Matt Andrews said. “And then here comes this hospital in North Carolina in 2009. A few hours more research emerged and leaders like Adams advocated for mothers of color at a national level. young Black politician, the mayor of Charlotte, after she’d given birth, she looked down to find and he kind of became the hope of progres- herself bleeding out onto the hospital bed. A “This has been going on far too long to just sives all around the country.” nurse came into the room to help and De Los sit back and say, ‘Well, things will get better,’” And yet, as a kid, Christopher didn’t see Santos’ husband ran out to find a doctor. De Los Santos said. Gantt as the ground-breaker and pillar of prog- PHOTO COURTESY OF JEFF CAMARATI/UNC ATHLETICS Women of Asian and Hispanic background ress that much of America saw him as. To him, First year defensive back Christopher Holliday. are more likely to experience postpartum Twitter: @praveenavsoma 8 Wednesday, February 24, 2021 Black History Month Edition

LOVE FOR THE SPORT Aluka-White: from blacktops to coaching By Zachary Crain Then a junior, Coleman would go Assistant Sports Editor on to an illustrious playing career, [email protected] being named All-ACC three times in college and developing into a WNBA Joanne Aluka-White fell in standout. Simply put, Aluka-White love with basketball on scathing was in good hands. Georgia blacktops. “Early on (when I’d suggest we play She fell in love with basketball pick-up games), she’d be like, ‘Ugh,’ on the low posts of Hephzibah High but then it became natural,” Coleman School, playing against competition said. “The more we went and the more that was sometimes taller, often we played, it was a good thing.” more experienced and always aiming Beyond the basketball-obsessed for a knockout punch against one of trait the pair possessed, they bonded the most talented teams in the state. over another shared identity: their She fell in love with basketball Nigerian heritage. on car rides with her high school Coleman was born in Washington, coach, Wendell Lofton, and on D.C., but her father was Nigerian. near-daily trips to the park for He died when Coleman was young, pickup games in the Georgia meaning she never spent much time summer heat with her teammate with the Nigerian side of her family. and close friend, Itoro Coleman. Going to the Aluka household served Decades into her life with the game, as an opportunity for Coleman to step and 15 years after taking her first into that world. job as an assistant coach at Florida “When I would go to her house, I International, Aluka-White still loves mean the food that they would make, basketball. She’s helped orchestrate the languages, I would say that was the beginnings of a women’s basketball just another thing that we had in renaissance at North Carolina under common,” Coleman said. head coach Courtney Banghart, serving As Aluka-White’s high school as the primary coach for a UNC post career progressed, she started getting PHOTO COURTESY OF DANA GENTRY/UNC ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS unit that has helped anchor the Tar recognized by college coaches. UNC women’s basketball coach Joanne Aluka-White coaches at a preseason practice in Carmichael Arena. Heels over the past two seasons. Deciding from a list of schools that your country.” through official visits and hold her at Florida International and followed But to hear Aluka-White tell it, a included Houston, East Tennessee Not long after the Olympics teammates accountable. that up with another seven years on lifetime spent in the gym wasn’t just and South Carolina State, she chose finished, Aluka-White was dealt And this newfound leadership staff at UNC-Charlotte, where she destiny. She had to work for it. Middle Tennessee State. a blow back in the United States. role came naturally to her. Growing served as an associate head coach in “(My parents) realized that this Her father, John, died from a long up with John, a college professor and her final two seasons. ‘You get what you earn in life’ was something serious with me and bout with kidney issues. With his primary voice of reason within their Banghart said much of Aluka- something where I could go to school condition worsening, she left to go family, she didn’t have to look far for White’s success as a coach comes Aluka-White was born in Jackson, and have my education paid for,” she home before the closing ceremonies. an example of a leader. from her ability to form unique one- Mississippi, to Nigerian-born said. “Which, at the end of the day, is “I think there was a sense of pride “My dad was always a strong on-one relationships with athletes. immigrants, John and Rose Aluka. really all they cared about.” She spent her childhood in that his daughter that was born here voice, he was always a problem- “She’s someone who will have your still had a sense of pride in the country solver,” Aluka-White said. “I think I back whether you’re a player or a coach,” Augusta, Georgia, handling a larger- ‘A sense of pride’ than-usual swath of household that he came from and that I’m from saw that and emulated that. Going Banghart said. “You always feel better as well,” Aluka-White said. “I went and into college, I was always able to be when you feel like you’re trusted and chores as her family’s only child — Aluka-White’s playing career represented Nigeria with a lot of pride, a voice of reason.” when you feel like you’re supported. anything from mowing the lawn came to a head at the 2004 Olympics so I think before he died, he was proud After her playing career ended She does a really good job of that.” and washing the car to cleaning the in Athens, Greece. Holding dual- of me and he cherished that.” following a stint of professional Now in her ninth year in North house was fair game. citizenship status, she was able to basketball overseas, Aluka-White Carolina and her second at UNC, “It was a lot of blue-collar work, like play for the Nigerian national team. ‘Helping young people’ returned to the United States unsure Aluka-White is a well-respected name everything I’ve ever been able to do I’ve One name on the roster was a about her next step. She needed work, across the state. The potential for a head had to work for it, it hasn’t been given familiar one for Aluka-White: Itoro Beyond the dominant force so she called Stephany Smith, her coaching position is there, but there’s to me,” Aluka-White said. “So that’s my Coleman. Years after they had last Aluka-White became on the court former coach at Middle Tennessee. no rush for that. One of Aluka-White’s mindset, that’s how I approach a lot of taken the court together, they had a during her college career at Middle Smith told Aluka-White about a job mottos is blooming where she’s planted. things. You get what you earn in life. chance to represent the country where Tennessee State — finishing with opening at FIU, and as she tells it, “the And right now, her roots are in Nothing is handed to you.” they both had their roots. over 1,000 career points and leading rest is history.” Chapel Hill. Aluka-White entered high school And represent Nigeria they did. the Blue Raiders to an NCAA “Once I got to FIU, I really fell in “I was able to see this place from as a raw talent. Someone with the Nigeria’s women’s team had never Tournament bid — she displayed love with helping young people get afar and see the power of Carolina,” athletic gifts to hold her own against won an Olympic game entering the leadership traits that would better, on and off the court,” Aluka- Aluka-White said. “We all respect elite prep players, but with only a Athens. But with a win over South eventually guide her into coaching. White said. “Just them growing as a each other, we’re hardworking couple of years of middle school Korea, Aluka-White and Coleman’s Being named a team captain, young woman in those four years.” people and we’re trying to turn this basketball serving as refinement. squad became the first to ever do it. the coaching staff relied on her as a Despite her career spanning 15 program around, which we’re doing.” But Lofton saw the potential the “You would’ve thought we won stable presence within the program, years, Aluka-White hasn’t moved rising ninth grader possessed and the gold medal,” Coleman said. “You someone who could guide recruits around much. She spent 2006-2012 Twitter: @zachycrain talked to his star player, Coleman. had a sense of pride just playing for Column: Black activism in athletics By Jeremiah Holloway attention to the racial discrimination he and his teammates Senior Writer experienced after they were refused service at a coffee shop. [email protected] What’s notable about Ali, Brown and Russell fighting against injustice is that these instances occurred in the I recently saw the film, “One Night In Miami.” While middle of the Civil Rights Movement (or shortly after, in it’s not purely a sports film, it provides much-needed Brown’s case). They could’ve sat back and tolerated the insight into modern racial inequities. mistreatment for the sake of their careers, but instead The film revolves around discussions between chose to speak out. Their willingness to step outside of Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay), Jim Brown, their comfort zone added more weight to their actions. Malcolm X and Sam Cooke about the plights of Black Basketball player Maya Moore has also made her mark celebrities who use their platforms to speak out. Though as a social activist. In 2019, she sacrificed an entire season of the film is a fictional account based in 1964, it speaks to the her impressive career to help free Jonathon Irons, a Missouri role of prominent Black figures as activists. man who was wrongfully convicted of burglary and assault. Ali and Brown were ahead of their time as athletes Her actions mirrored those made by athletes decades prior who also served as social activists. Ali declined to fight in and showed how important the fight for justice is. the Vietnam War, citing that he didn’t want to fight for Colin Kaepernick’s decision not to stand for the national a country that didn’t welcome him. The decision led to anthem in 2016 stirred much controversy on social media, him losing his heavyweight title and being barred from with many sports fans claiming that he disrespected the boxing for three years. American flag. Though Kaepernick made his position clear Jeremiah Holloway Brown went toe-to-toe with Lester Maddox, a self- that he wanted to condemn the mistreatment of Black proclaimed segregationist, on national television in people by law enforcement, he was labeled as unpatriotic the reality is that sports provide no immunity for players when they leave the field. 1970. Along with defending Ali, Brown also explained and still hasn’t returned to the field. No sport or celebrity status can shield Black people from racism. They to Maddox that Black people are accepted when they Social media gives athletes the advantage of reaching may even serve as a target at times. The onus is not solely on athletes to remain quiet and humble. millions of people at once with the press of a button. speak out, but those who consider themselves fans must respect the lives of Alongside those two, Boston Celtics center Bill Russell During the George Floyd protests, numerous athletes the Black athletes they admire. dealt with discrimination, despite being a superstar athlete. took to social media to share their thoughts on the world. He led a boycott in 1961 during an exhibition game to bring Many shy away from discussing race relations in sports, but Twitter: @jerem11ah Wednesday, February 24, 2021 9 Black History Month Edition

Black first-generation students reflect on their experiences at UNC By Charity Cohen us that we aren’t alone, because I think as a first-gen that’s Senior Writer one of the biggest things, you feel so alone,” she said. [email protected] Gaining a sense of pride In the fall 2019 semester, there were 19,154 undergraduate students at the University, and of those The students said though being a first-generation students, about 20 percent of them were the first in student can be challenging, it also comes with feelings their families to attend college. Only 467 of these first- of immense pride and opportunities to give their parents generation students identified as African American. experiences that they never had. Williams recalled the Some of these Black students reflected on the moment that she first realized the significance of being a challenges, triumphs and pride they have experienced first-generation college student. with this identity: “I definitely had that first experience when I got accepted into Carolina,” Williams said. “It was just that Access challenges feeling of, ‘My parents didn’t go to college and now I’m going, this is crazy.’ For one student, the frustrations associated with being “I was just super grateful because that gave them a first-generation college student started before college the chance to live vicariously through me and get that acceptance letters were received. experience that they didn’t have.” Onyinyechukwu Mazi, a first-year studying chemistry, When Williams went back home after the University said filling out her FAFSA presented challenges for her first transitioned to remote learning, her father had that DTH/CHASE COFIELD as not only a first-generation student, but also as a first- opportunity to live through her. Junior Emma Agalo poses for a portrait on Feb. 22, 2021. Agalo is among the generation immigrant. “I was sitting in class and my dad came in the room 20% of undergrad students at UNC who are first-generation college students. “I think the hardest part of all that was going through and he just sat on the bed and was looking at everybody FAFSA because not only is there just a barrier of not just listening, and he sat there with me throughout my knowing how to fill out the paperwork, but also a entire class,” she said. “That really made his day for him language barrier, so for a lot of my life I did have to to just be able to sit in on a class.” translate stuff for my parents,” Mazi said. Oczaveus X, Williams’ father, shared what was going Beginning the college journey and assimilating to the through his head while attending his first college class academic and professional culture without being able to alongside his daughter. ask their families for advice was the greatest frustration “I sat in on her Chinese class and I was so excited at the for some first-generation students. fact that she was home,” X said. “My daughter left the nest Jazmine Bunch, a senior broadcast journalism student, for the first time when she went to boarding school, and recalled her experience of adjusting to this culture. again when she went to college, but she was actually home.” “I remember popping up to professional events that I X was fascinated by both his daughter’s ability to go didn’t understand were professional, wearing jeans and to college and her journey to finish. a T-shirt,” Bunch said. “Simple things like that would “Given I never went to college and then just thinking have made all the difference, had I not been first-gen.” about the fact that my daughter is not only in college, but Robert Susewell, a sophomore studying computer is about to graduate, is just something amazing,” he said. “I science, said his greatest challenge came from him feeling learned a lot that day, even though I didn’t know anything like he hadn’t been prepared for the academic rigor. her professor was saying,” he added with a smile. “I would say the biggest problem was having to adapt For Mazi, being a first-generation student means she to the course load and difficulty of classes,” Susewell said. is leading her family into new opportunities and opening “Since nobody I knew had been to college, I didn’t really doors for more possibilities. have any way to prepare for them or many resources to “I think it’s really cool being the first generation in my navigate me through classes.” family to get a higher education and basically leading DTH/CHRIS OCANA Myioshi Williams, a senior studying exercise and them out of poverty and leveling up, and curating Senior broadcast journalism major Jazmine Bunch poses on Feb. 20, 2021. sports science, remembers having a hard time figuring generational wealth, and it’s like breaking generational out what classes to take during her first year. curses, so I do carry first-gen with a lot of pride,” she said. “My mom couldn’t really talk to me about course Amaglo said her duty extends beyond her family to future selection, my dad couldn’t talk to me about course generations of other first-generation minority students. selection because they don’t know how that stuff works, “I’m proud, I’m very honored, that I’m able to what classes I’ll need to fulfill my major,” Williams said. go through this process, and especially at UNC “I kind of just had to figure it out on my own.” because again, UNC has some amazing resources and For Emma Amaglo, a junior, her distress came from opportunities,” Amaglo said. “I’m very passionate about a lack of access to resources. helping first-gen students and minority students get the “Everyone knows UNC is one of the most resourceful resources that they need to be successful.” schools; however, people don’t know about these Bunch carries her title of being a Black first- resources,” Amaglo said. “It’s also hard to get these generation student as a badge of honor and encourages resources sometimes; they don’t do a good job of making others to do the same. these resources easily accessible to minority students, “As a first-gen, especially a Black first-gen, at Carolina, especially first-gens.” I think it’s really important to understand the power Some of Bunch’s stresses of being a first-generation college that your position as a first-gen holds,” she said. “That student were alleviated once she found community through is such a feat in itself, and once you realize that your organizations like First-Generation Student Association and circumstance doesn’t define you in a way where it’ll the Tri Alpha Honors Society, which celebrate the academic hinder you, but it’ll push you forward, I think that just achievements of first-generation students. makes all the difference.” “I think that it’s very important that we have that community because it gave us an identity, and it also shows Twitter: @charity_cohen

DTH/CHASE COFIELD UNC senior exercise and sports science major Myioshi Williams poses for a virtual portrait in her home in Miami, Florida, on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021.

DTH/CHRIS OCANA DTH/CHASE COFIELD Robert Susewell, a sophomore computer science major at UNC, poses in front of the Old Well on Feb. 21, 2021. UNC first-year Onyinyechukwu Mazi is photographed on Feb. 20, 2021. 10 Wednesday, February 24, 2021 Black History Month Edition

Campus Y elects first Black female co-presidents By Hunter Haskett Staff Writer [email protected]

UNC junior Montia Daniels and sophomore Patrice McGloin are making history as the Campus Y’s first Black female co-presidents. “As Black women, we know that we’re often vulnerable to lots of different forms of oppression, and lots of different things on this campus that we’re vulnerable to,” Daniels said. “So, we’ve thought about that a lot, and thinking about how we can make an impact and how we can really make a change and a difference in this community while also having our marginalized experiences in mind.” The two women titled their platform ‘We will not be silenced’ to highlight their commitment to being authentic to themselves and their experiences — as well as and helping others feel that they don’t have to restrict their own story in any way. “Many people on this campus feel like they’re not seen or heard, and we finally have a space to show that like, DTH/CALLI WESTRA DTH/CALLI WESTRA ‘No, it doesn’t matter what the previous structures have been, this is what’s Montia Daniels, a new co-president of the Campus Y, is a junior double New Campus Y co-President Patrice McGloin is a sophomore double happening now,’” McGloin said. “We majoring in women and gender studies and media and journalism. majoring in psychology and public policy and minoring in Chinese. are so firmly rooted in the people that supported us through all of this. I’m just McGloin said social justice work interested in running for co-presidents term will begin that same day. marginalized identities, Patil said. In very excited to open that space up and is both exhausting and rewarding, after holding executive positions on The terms for the outgoing the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, give back to them to really have voices so being transparent and vulnerable the Sexuality and Gender Alliance Campus Y executive board Patil said she and Weerakkody were heard that don’t normally get to.” will be important for them. and Criminal Justice Awareness and members will also end with Patil not able to make this dream a reality. Daniels and McGloin said they The incoming co-presidents Action committees, respectively. and Weerakkody. Daniels and “It has existed on its own since want to continue to grow and also want to continue work on “Montia and I both really McGloin will then choose a new 2017, but this is the first time that open the Campus Y community by racial equity within the Campus Y connected on just how much we executive board for next year. Patil we’re really trying to integrate it fostering more vulnerability and community and the UNC community cherish this community, the way that said applications for these positions into the Y space so that it has a transparency among members. as a whole. Daniels cited the work of it’s pushed us and sort of supported should be released soon. permanent home,” Patil said. “We’re trying to re-emphasize the other organizations that are building us as well as we’ve been going Patil is looking forward to Daniels Patil said she is excited for her fact that we’re people first, and that community rooted in anti-racism through UNC,” McGloin said. “And I and McGloin bringing a project to successors and the future of their term. this work is based on people who are and equity. think both of us really see a potential life: the integration of the Coalition “I’m just excited because flawed and need time and need space “We’re so amazed to see it,” for growth in the community as well.” of Awareness, Resistance and they’re both incredible leaders and have vulnerabilities,” McGloin Daniels said. “We want to be a part The term of the current Campus Y Solidarity within the Campus Y. and incredible people,” Patil said. said. “And we want to acknowledge of it and we want to also stand in co-presidents, Veda Patil and Thilini The idea behind the coalition is that “They’re wonderful.” the entirety of the person who’s solidarity with them.” Weerakkody, will officially end on it would exist as an independent doing this activist work.” Daniels and McGloin became March 12. Daniels and McGloin’s organizing space for students with Twitter: @dailytarheel Tamiya Troy is a ‘priceless gem’ of the University The UNC senior leads Movement, which is the largest for self-care. cultural organization at UNC. She is “You can’t fight for the cause if you’re community social justice also the senior class vice president, and down on the ground or if your mental through example in the past has served as a member of health is at stake,” Troy said. “How can the Carolina Board of Directors. I really improve the community if I’m By Samuel Garzon Chris Suggs, the senior class sitting in my room, and all I’m doing Staff Writer president and treasurer of BSM, is is work, work, work?” [email protected] one of Troy’s closest friends. They She often spends time with her met each other in a group chat for sister to recharge in between her One of UNC senior Tamiya Troy’s new students in 2017, and since then days full of meetings, classes and favorite activities is playing with her both have served in different roles duties from her organizations — 3-year-old sister Londyn — even as for BSM. Suggs described Troy as a although Londyn always likes to she balances serving as president of selfless, kind and energetic person. make sure she is included. the Black Student Movement and “She is always there ensuring “She loves coming into my room,” vice president of the senior class. people across campus knows about Troy said. “Getting into anything she Raised in Fayetteville, North what BSM is doing. There has never possibly can.” Carolina, Troy has become a been a moment when she said, Suggs said Troy goes above and prominent student leader and ‘That’s not my job,’ or anything like beyond as a leader, helping to make activist at the University. that,” Suggs said. “She is always UNC a special and welcoming place. “There is always an issue that willing to be involved in any aspect “There’s a lot of things that PHOTO COURTESY OF TAMIYA TROY you can advocate for,” Troy said. of the organization.” make Carolina a special place, but Tamiya Troy, current president of Black Student Movement and senior class vice “I’m contributing to the bettering of When Troy was the 2018-19 the people are definitely at the top president, has made serving the community the cornerstone of her UNC career. this place for everyone that comes communications coordinator, she of that list. One example of our after me. I’m able to serve and uplift helped BSM recruit new members priceless gems here at this University get those recommendations taken Troy said she hopes to see continued marginalized communities in any through different social media are leaders like Tamiya,” Suggs said. seriously, she said. support for Black students and faculty. way, shape or form.” campaigns. During that year, the Troy said it is crucial that “We make it a point to really “Outside of February, what are Since her first year, Troy has number of members grew to over members of the movement have advocate for what we’re wanting people genuinely doing to help the been involved with several student 400 students. space where they can voice concerns and not diluting our requests, not Black community? Are they listening organizations focused on student Even during the COVID-19 and grievances to the school, which diluting our demands,” Troy said. to us? Are they paying attention to well-being and diversity. pandemic, Troy said she has made often tends to ignore their worries. Sibby Anderson Thompkins, us? Are they supporting us, or is this During her sophomore year, sure BSM is an available resource “Tamiya has always been very interim chief diversity officer, said only happening during the day?” Troy served as communications for Black students. vocal when it comes to expressing that UNC is grateful for BSM’s Troy said. director and vice president of She and her team established an her opinion when she feels there advocacy for Black students, faculty, Troy will be graduating this UNC’s Black Student Movement. emergency mutual aid fund to assist is something wrong,” Troy’s close staff and community members. upcoming May with a bachelors degree In this position, she lead a social Black students with needs associated friend, Onesty McMillian, said. “The organization’s role on in journalism. She plans to attend media campaign and marketing with housing, food, transportation, “She’s in multiple positions, and she this campus is vital,” Anderson law school next fall, where she hopes strategy for minority student medication and other challenges does great in each one of them. She Thompkins said in a statement. to keep working to help people from retention and engagement. Now a during the pandemic. BSM’s primary has a lot on her plate, but she keeps “The recommendations the BSM marginalized communities. senior, and president of BSM, Troy goal is to create a safe space where up with all of it.” bring to Carolina’s senior leadership “If you genuinely seek change is still looking for ways to support students can lean on each other and Troy said BSM has faced team – whether about navigating the in your community, you have to be the Black community — especially celebrate their cultural richness challenges with school directives. For COVID-19 pandemic on campus or willing to step out of your comfort during a pandemic. through different outlets, she said. example, BSM has often provided addressing racial inequities – help zone,” she said. Troy currently serves as the With all the work she does on demands and suggestions to the guide decision-making.” president of the Black Student campus, Troy said she still finds time University. But it can be difficult to Beyond Black History Month, Twitter: @dailytarheel Wednesday, February 24, 2021 11 Black History Month Edition

ACHIEVEMENT Students accepted to leadership program The Institute celebrates session will convene on June 6. about your interests and how you can “I’m passionate about uplift for the During the program, the scholars parlay that into how you can use that Black community,” Morant said. “At African American men will be housed at George Washington to do good for the community.” the end of these two summers, I hope University as they develop critical The program is unique in its length to have a clear understanding of how I By Charlotte Geier leadership skills while learning about the and the long lasting connections can parlay my financial understanding Staff Writer economy and government. Each scholar formed through it, William Keyes IV, into meaningful research.” [email protected] will also participate in an internship president of the Institute, said. Sheshbaradaran is interested pertinent to their field of interest. “We’re really building a strong and in the intersection of business and The Institute for Responsible Morant and Sheshbaradaran cohesive network of men,” Keyes said. politics, specifically in foreign affairs Citizenship, a highly competitive are both majoring in business “In a lot of cases, students will go do and diplomacy. He said he is looking two-summer-long leadership administration, and Sheshbaradaran a summer internship someplace, and forward to his internship at the program for the nation’s top young is a double major in political science. then never be in touch with the people Institute combining these two interests. African American men, has a motto At UNC, Morant is heavily involved they met during that internship again, The cohort of individuals in the that has rung true for 19 summers: in the Black Student Movement on whereas these men become a part of the Institute is one of the program’s “preparing extraordinary men to campus and served as Mr. Freshman network that they will benefit from and steadfast aspects. This community Jovan Sheshbaradaran do extraordinary things.” of BSM last year. He writes for Black contribute to for the rest of their lives.” is what Morant said he is excited to Even today, this mission has been Ink magazine and Coulture magazine. This past summer’s program was experience this summer. ingrained in the program. UNC During his first year, Morant also virtual as a result of the pandemic, but “I’m just super excited to get to sophomore Jovan Sheshbaradaran, served as parliamentarian and Keyes is hopeful that the upcoming know those people and see what who was accepted into the Institute sergeant at arms in the Undergraduate summer can be conducted in-person. type of experiences they’ve had, this past month, looks forward to doing Senate. Morant is also a resident UNC junior Sam Timmons, a see the commonalities but also the these extraordinary things through advisor on campus. scholar at the Institute entering his differences in their experiences, and conversing and connecting with his Sheshbaradaran is involved in second year, said this past summer just expand my network in that way,” cohort of peers in the program. Minority Business Student Alliance was still impactful, even with COVID- Morant said. “No important leader got to with an executive role, and is a 19 modifications. Sheshbaradaran also anticipates the any point of substantial success peer mentor with the Minority “I’m hopeful that we’ll be able to get conversations he will have with a range in their life without having some Advisory Program. He is about to up there this summer and hopefully, of individuals during the program. sort of difficult conversations,” begin his position as the student life you know, take advantage of the “Having those like really deep Sheshbaradaran said. “If we’re truly and leadership diversity outreach in-person part of the experience, conversations with him and with trying to get through the mission coordinator for the Carolina Union. but all in all it was still an incredibly other guys around the country who Maxwell Morant of the program of preparing and Sheshbaradaran is involved in Cru, a powerful summer for me,” Timmons are experiencing far different things equipping the next generation of campus ministry, and he interned at said. “It’s not just an internship, it’s than I’ve probably experienced is what Black leaders, I think that that’s what his local church last summer. really a leadership program.” I’m really excited for,” Sheshbaradaran program are transferable, and it’s makes these difficult conversations To be selected, Morant and Both Morant and Sheshbaradaran said. “I really like to get into those nitty definitely not going to limit any of so important.” Sheshbaradaran completed a written have different career aspirations gritty, make-you-feel-uncomfortable your options regardless of what you Sheshbaradaran, with UNC application and interview process. they hope to achieve with the help kind of conversations. I think that decide to do,” Morant said. “If there’s sophomore Max Morant, will be “One thing I like about the Institute: of the Institute. that’s where real growth happens.” anybody who’s heard of the Institute having these difficult conversations they focus on getting to know you In the future, Morant said he Regardless of major or interests, and is considering if it’s something alongside other scholars from across rather than the kind of generic hopes to conduct financial research Morant recommends that prospective they want to do, I’d say just throw your the nation over the next two summers application,” Morant said. “It wasn’t and promote financial literacy and scholars at UNC apply to the Institute hat in the ring.” in the Institute’s Washington, D.C. like ‘I’m super hard working.’ They economic empowerment in the in the future. program. This year’s 8-week summer know all that already. It’s really more Black community. “The skills you learn from the Twitter: @dailytarheel

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Black students find community in medical school Organizations address percent from the previous year. Though the number of first-year lack of diversity in the medical students of color increased field, including at UNC in 2020, the AAMC stated that the growth was concentrated at a By Praveena Somasundaram small number of medical schools Audience Engagement Editor — primarily HBCUs and Hispanic- [email protected] serving institutions.

When Celeste Green started ‘A place where they can find her first year at the UNC School of that support’ Medicine, she already knew two other Black first-year students. The three According to the AAMC, 474 students had participated in UNC’s students with undergraduate degrees Medical Education Development from UNC applied to medical school Program three years earlier. last year. Of those, 54 students were The MED program, which African American. still runs every summer, offers an UNC has one of the largest pre- educational experience for pre-health medical student populations in the students to delve into professional country, according to the AAMC. curriculum — particularly students As a Black pre-medical student, who are underrepresented. sophomore Damilola Ayinde said Upon starting medical school she feels pressured in her courses at UNC, Green quickly found a so others won’t think that she’s “that supportive community of fellow dumb Black kid.” DTH/IRA WILDER Black medical students. “When I find myself being one Damilola Ayinde, a sophomore pre-med student at UNC, poses for a virtual portrait on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. “When I “There aren’t that many of us, so it of the very few Black students in find myself being one of the very few Black students in my classes, I do feel like I have to perform well,” said Ayinde. wasn’t hard to find each other,” she said. my classes, I do feel like I have to Green and four other Black perform well,” Ayinde said. students had a group chat called Ayinde said she feels discouraged can find that support,” Green said. In addition to the MED program, of the school as leaders, while also “White Coats Black Doctors.” The in some of her STEM classes because “And they can find those groups who UNC School of Medicine is rolling working to transform the culture five students later used the same she hasn’t seen many Black peer can celebrate them through all the out a new program, Nate Thomas, to one that is more inclusive and name for a nonprofit they founded mentors. But she hopes to see change ups and the downs that come with vice dean for Diversity, Equity and representative of the state we serve,” in 2015 to help increase the diversity within medical schools in the years being a medical trainee.” Inclusion, said in a statement. Thomas said in the statement. of the medical profession. before she applies. In light of the racial justice The program, Carolina Early Minasi said that while these Organizations like White “I feel like there needs to be more protests over the summer, Petros eXperience in Clinical Education programs and conversations to Coats Black Doctors support the Black people in leadership positions,” Minasi, Kaplan’s senior director and Learning, will provide an address inclusivity and representation development of Black physicians, she said, “so then more Black for pre-health programs, said that intensive curriculum for one year with at universities are important, they addressing an evident lack of students will be able to see these Kaplan’s survey asked medical guaranteed acceptance to the UNC need to continue earlier in the diversity in the medical field, very successful Black individuals in schools about their support of the School of Medicine the following education system as well, for high including at schools like UNC. medical institutions.” Black Lives Matter movement. year upon successful completion of schoolers and middle schoolers. Nationwide, Black or African Green and the other four “What we learned from the survey milestones, Thomas said. “This is where those seeds are American students made up 9.5 co-founders of White Coats Black is that while medical schools are The experience of Carolina ultimately planted and the earlier percent of first-year medical Doctors created the nonprofit to largely supportive of the Black Lives EXCEL is intended to accomplish that those conversations can happen, students, according to a report provide a more inviting space and Matter movement, far fewer have three goals. the more active the conversation will published by the Association of network for Black medical students. specific programs to increase the “We will do three things: be in the long run,” Minasi said. American Medical Colleges in “They know that White Coats number of black students at their significantly increase their social December 2020. This is up from 8.8 Black Doctors is a place where they school,” Minasi said. capital, immerse them in the culture Twitter: @praveenavsoma 12 Wednesday, February 24, 2021 Opinion dailytarheel.com The Daily Tar Heel EDITORIAL Established 1893 127 years of editorial freedom Remember UNC’s first Black students

ANNA POGARCIC EDITOR!IN!CHIEF a r v e y B e e c h w a s disappointed, but not PAIGE MASTEN Hsurprised. OPINION EDITOR “It was a mistake,” they told him. Beech was accidentally given a RAJEE GANESAN swimming pool pass when UNC ASSISTANT OPINION EDITOR assumed he was Brazilian, not African EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS American. The University wanted Beech to return the pass since as, at ABBAS HASAN the time, only white students were ADIA SMALLS able to receive pool passes. On March 27, 1951, the U.S. Court ADITI KHAROD of Appeals ruled in McKissick v. ANNIE GRACE PLOTT Carmichael that UNC must admit BEN RAPPAPORT Floyd McKissick, along with four other African Americans, to the UNC CAITLYN YAEDE School of Law. CALLIE XU That summer session, five young African American men CHO NIKOI made history by attending UNC. ELISA KADACKAL They endured countless instances of discrimination, knowing that JACOBSON LESER their success would decide the JOSEPH KARGBO opportunities given to minority students that would follow them. JOSIAH TOWNSEND PHOTO COURTESY OF CAROLINA TIMES ARCHIVE LAYLA PEYKAMIAN Beech defied his father’s wishes and attorney in Greensboro, where he After the BOT and the chancellor Floyd McKissick attended Morehouse College, where went on to represent a majority of denied Walker access to the LIAM BENDEZU The plaintiff in the court ruling, he was captain of the football team the 1,700 civil disobedience cases in University’s traditional spring MICHAEL BEAUREGARD Floyd McKissick, had already and a classmate of Martin Luther North Carolina resulting from the dance, Walker responded with a NASIHA RIZWAN received his LL.B. degree from King, Jr. Woolworth sit-ins. letter stating, “I will never accept Once, the chancellor offered the denial of a privilege. I have RAYMOND PANG North Carolina College School of Law (known today as North Carolina Beech a football ticket, but told him James Lassiter made footprints around the world VANCE STILES Central University). he’d have to sit behind the goalposts defending a free society.” Lassiter ended up transferring In 1948, McKissick applied to in the African American section. In addition to practicing law, and graduating from North Carolina UNC School of Law but was denied After graduation from UNC, Walker advocated to abolish the College School of Law after a brief SPEAK OUT solely because of his race. After the Beech resided in Kinston, practicing voter literacy test and end voter stint at UNC. However, Lassiter was Interested in writing a letter ruling, McKissick enrolled in the law for 35 years. suppression in predominantly just beginning to break race barriers to the editor or submitting an summer session and took one class at African American counties across at UNC. UNC as a symbolic measure. J. Kenneth Lee North Carolina. op-ed? After his law school career, he was Following law school, McKissick As we celebrate Black History • Students: Include your year, Lee, the grandson of slaves, was named the first African American to established a law firm that handled Month, let us not forget the many major and phone number. an accomplished World War II be a field agent for the United States civil rights issues in Durham, hardships they experienced. Let us • Faculty/staff: Include your veteran. One of the main reasons he Department of Commerce. becoming a prominent member of celebrate the grit and determination department and phone number. chose UNC was because he knew he the civil rights movement. required to overcome the prejudice • Edit: The DTH edits for space, wasn’t welcomed. When the five men James Robert Walker that these men faced. clarity, accuracy and vulgarity. enrolled, people threatened the law Finally, let us remember the paths Limit submissions to 500 words. Harvey Beech school, preferring for it to shut down. During Walker’s time on campus, that these men paved for students of he fought to participate in normal Beech’s father, who was a barber, After completing his degree at any background to not only attend, Email: [email protected] campus life. had the same aspirations for his son. UNC, Lee became a civil rights but create a legacy at UNC. EDITOR’S NOTE: Columns, cartoons and letters do not necessarily represent the opinions COLUMN of The Daily Tar Heel or its staff. Editorials reflect the opinions of The Daily Tar Heel editorial board, which comprises 17 board members, the Racialized zoning: It’s in our backyard opinion assistant editor and editor and the editor-in-chief. By Ben Rappaport In Chapel Hill, this means the upholding institutional racism. percent of Chapel Hill’s population, Editorial Board Member costs of the home cannot exceed 30% The false war that Chandlers a number that has remained largely of a household’s income. So, these Green residents are waging with stagnant over the past two decades. ight off the I-40 highway units would cost the average Chapel the Weavers Grove development This lack of diversity is due in part on Sunrise Road sits a Hill family of four around $72,000. is an example of that not-in-my- to rapid growth from the University R32-acre plot of land that is The disparity between those backyard (NIMBY) attitude that that has ushered in gentrification the projected site for Weavers Grove numbers is why this plot of land has has been displayed countless times and pushed out poverty. Community, a proposed mixed- been a battleground for Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill. In a liberal haven like Chapel income development to be built by since Weaver’s Grove was proposed And all of it goes back to zoning. Hill, it can be expected that this Orange County Habitat for Humanity. in 2002. It is a symbol of this town’s Zoning is an inherently racialized idea of helping the less fortunate is It’s a quiet piece of land, with trees fight over zoning, racism and our practice meant to keep Black people widely accepted. And it is in theory, and currently surrounded by marsh. values as a community. out of white neighborhoods. but in practice, there have been The proposed development borders Chapel Hill often prides itself on Explicitly racialized zoning vocal dissenters. the community of Chandlers Green, being an inclusive and progressive practices are no longer legal, but Research shows that mixed- where homes currently sell for college town, but those values are zoning policy still keeps the poor, income developments like Weavers around $600,000 and up. The new superficial. Community members and often people of color, out. The Grove can be the “antidote” to development will have 243 units, 99 literally don’t want change in their progressives of Chapel Hill might not urban poverty. It improves cultural of which will be affordable housing. own backyard, and that attitude is be racist, but their demonization of understandings of one another, and poverty, much like the Town itself, is it helps give people in poverty an The Daily Tar Heel built on racist policy. economic opportunity at success. In Chapel Hill, as with many That is why it is so sad to see Established 1893 suburban towns, zoning for homes Chapel Hill, a place that boasts 127 years of editorial freedom is largely dedicated to single-family progress and inclusivity, consistently housing, meaning only one occupant decline affordable housing to people What is the editorial board? can purchase each home. These in need. It is the epitome of fake A group of student journalists who are typically much more expensive white liberalism to say you want to meet twice a week. The editorial than multi-family housing such as help the poor, and then not actually board is independent from The Daily apartment complexes. By zoning step up to the plate. Tar Heel’s newsroom. Chapel Hill as largely single-family These NIMBY arguments to keep Editorials are unsigned. They don’t housing, it preserves the white poverty away are happening around reflect the opinion of any one person, wealth and their property values. the country, but right now the debate but rather the consensus of the board Time and time again, the Town is in our backyard. as a whole. has tried to push forward affordable If we are going to be the liberal Just as The Daily Tar Heel itself values housing developments that have do-gooders we say we are, then we truth and transparency, the board been squandered or heavily delayed need affordable housing like Weavers values integrity, accountability, creativity and fairness. These values by community members overly Grove to get us there. shape how we address questions of concerned by their property values. Carolina’s future, past and present. DTH PHOTO ILLUSTRATION/CALLI WESTRA Black people are just under 10 Twitter: @b_rappaport The Daily Tar Heel Opinion Wednesday, February 24, 2021 13

COLUMN Princeville — the first settlement of many

By Michael Beauregard “...what will be the consequence now… when Columnist 70,000 ignorant negroes vote, and, especially, when it is undeniable that they have voted t exit 486, you leave U.S. Highway 64 heretofore solidly against the white man, and to find yourself on a two-lane road. at the bidding of the worst men in the country?” AFrom your car, the community you Despite this hostility, Princeville and other enter looks just like many others that dot the heavily Black communities in Eastern North landscape of Eastern North Carolina: a Lions Carolina had some electoral success. The town Club sign greets you to the town, as do a squat was a part of North Carolina’s 2nd Congressional town hall and homes with neatly trimmed District, referred to as the “Black Second.” lawns. The quiet Tar River passes slowly by, Three Black congressmen were elected from separating it from its larger neighbor, Tarboro. the region, including Reps. James O’Hara and But Princeville isn’t an ordinary town. Henry Cheatham. Another representative, Princeville was the first of its kind, a place in George White, hailed from Tarboro, and would the South where African Americans could gather serve as the only Black representative in the to foster safety in numbers against belligerent House during his two terms at the close of the neighbors. The town would also become a 19th century. His departure marked the last time symbol for the impacts of environmental a Black member would serve in Congress for racism, with the settlement repeatedly affected nearly 30 years. by flooding due to its low-lying location on the CHARLES S. KILLEBREW VIA DIGITAL NC Tar River. Environmental struggles caskets were swept from their burial sites and Why Princeville matters families who had just lost their homes were Origins of the settlement When they weren’t facing the scorn of their forced to rebury their dead. One could look at this information and white neighbors, the people of Princeville faced The town was devastated, but ultimately, ask, “Why rebuild?” Some residents of At the end of the Civil War, a large number of the wrath of the unpredictable Tar River. its people rebuilt and returned. Floyd caused the town seem to be asking this question freedmen gathered together on a largely neglected Founded on a low-lying floodplain, Princeville a “500-year flood,” meaning that such a themselves. In 2016, dozens of residents low-lying plain across the small settlement of was particularly vulnerable to flooding. The devastating event should happen only once in sought a buyout from the Federal Tarboro, around 20 miles east of Rocky Mount. settlement being here was no coincidence: it was a 500-year window. Emergency Management Administration, This new settlement was christened Freedom simply the land no white landowners wanted Seventeen years later, the town experienced allowing them to leave their land without Hill, after the small hill where Union troops anything to do with. The village faced severe another 500-year flood. Hurricane Matthew being financially devastated. informed the Black residents of the area that they flooding shortly after its foundation, as well as brought torrential downpours upon Regardless of what happens to it in the had been emancipated. six other times in the next century. After the Princeville. Three days after the hurricane future, Princeville has already secured itself In 1885, the village was incorporated as particularly devastating 1958 flood, the Army left the area, the water overtook the levee and in the history books. Not only was it the Princeville in honor of local carpenter Turner Corps of Engineers constructed a large levee flooded 80 percent of the town. first American community founded by freed Prince, who was an important member of the along the Tar River’s southern bank. Several months beforehand, flaws in the slaves, but it has also served as a microcosm fledgling community. Things remained calm for several decades. levee had been detected by the Army Corps of of environmental racism in the United States. Though Princeville managed to escape the In 1999, however, the community was dealt a Engineers — flaws that left the town open to A slice of Princeville can be seen in the terror of groups like the Ku Klux Klan, they crushing blow by the devastation of Hurricane this kind of disaster. slow FEMA response to Hurricane Katrina still faced the effects of white supremacy. Floyd. Across Eastern North Carolina, over By 2018, 500 of the 700 residents had in 2005, or in the construction of a toxic The Tarboro Southerner newspaper openly 1,000 survivors were rescued by Marine returned, and the town was slowly but surely waste dump near a predominantly Black displayed the resentment the white locals felt helicopters, and Princeville was drowned under recovering. In 2020, the Army Corps of community in Warren County during the for their Black neighbors. In 1868, the paper 12 feet of water. Engineers announced it would be retrofitting 1980s, or in the countless other instances in decried the newly proposed North Carolina Much like in the cemeteries of New Orleans the levee protecting the town once again, which communities of color were harmed in Constitution, asking: six years later during Hurricane Katrina, setting aside nearly $40 million for the project. the face of environmental disaster.

QUOTE OF THE DAY FEATURED ONLINE READER COMMENT I’ve said all that I want or will say on the matter of the Confederate monument or Joining a fraternity at Carolina in the spring of 1974 is the settlement, and I’d now like to turn to other important items.” one of the biggest regrets in my life!” Kevin Guskiewicz, Mike Tiddy, “ addressing the Silent Sam settlement at Friday’s Faculty Council meeting “ responding to a DTH editorial about Greek life, on Facebook EDITORIAL Our favorite Black creators in entertainment lack artists, actors and member: Lakeith Stanfield Best known for her roles in character Rue on “Euphoria” is no From their early start in music storytellers are often “Orange is the New Black” and “The small feat. to their prominent acting roles in Bo v e r l o o k e d i n o u r Recently I found out that LaKeith Handmaid’s Tale,” Samira Wiley is an Ultimately, she’s a triple threat I Freeform’s “grown-ish,” Chloe x discussions of pop culture. A study Stanfield is only 29 YEARS OLD, amazingly talented actress. Beyond can’t help but be inspired by. Halle have been making waves in published in September found which is amazing considering the the screen, she advocates on behalf the entertainment industry. Beyoncé that two in three Black Americans immense body of the work he’s of the LGBTQ+ community and Ben Rappaport, Editorial herself recognized their talent and don’t see themselves represented already done! campaigns alongside GLAAD and Board member: Lizzo signed them to her entertainment in film and television. Meanwhile, My favorite performance of his the Human Rights Campaign. label upon seeing their cover of executives in the music industry is in the knockout “Sorry to Bother Her work with the Theatre of War In an institution that is a breeding “Pretty Hurts.” are overwhelmingly white — yet You,” but I also loved his supporting projects is also notable, as these plays ground for imposter syndrome, Lizzo They are not afraid to expose profit largely off of the work of performances in “Get Out” and provide commentary on prevalent has reminded me of the power that the vulnerabilities and insecurities Black artists. “Knives Out.” Catch him in “Judas social issues, like racial injustice and I hold within myself. And, more they feel through their music, which In honor of Black History Month, and the Black Messiah” on HBO Max police brutality. importantly, to love myself. Lizzo’s reminds us to accept ourselves here are some of the Editorial Board’s until March 15. From her television work to her constant challenge of the status quo despite our flaws. I implore you to favorite Black creators in TV, music advocacy, Wiley is an inspiration. as a proudly Black woman reminds give their most recent studio album and film. Caitlyn Yaede, Editorial Board me that it’s sexy to be confident in “Ungodly Hour” a listen! member: Samira Wiley Layla Peykamian, Editorial who you are. Aditi Kharod, Editorial Board Board member: Zendaya Also, the woman just exudes Paige Masten, opinion editor: radiance. Seriously, watch her Tiny Janelle Monáe Zendaya has undeniably been Desk Concert and tell me you aren’t an icon since her youth. Since her impressed with the breath control. The Is there anything Janelle Monáe breakout role in Disney’s “Shake jazz flute. It’s raw talent. Her self-made can’t do? It Up,” I’ve been committed to her journey to the top makes her an iconic From the masterpiece that was work and have been excited to see figure in the current pop culture scene. “Dirty Computer” to stunning her career flourish. She came from poverty and lived out performances in “Antebellum” Most recently, the world seems to of her car, but that never held back her and “Moonlight,” it’s clear Monáe have taken note of her phenomenal powerful voice. contains multitudes. job starring in the show “Euphoria,” Lizzo represents not only Black Monáe is an example of which has been rightfully acclaimed women, but curvy women. Her a celebrity who uses their by critics and consumers alike. promotion of body positivity platform for good — whether it’s Watching the show I was reminded through her public lifestyle and spearheading voter mobilization of the depth and range of Zendaya’s lyricism is important in today’s efforts or challenging the gender acting abilities in particular. conversation because people of binary as a Black queer feminist. Being able to phenomenally color often get left out of the body Monáe shows me what it’s execute the roles of lighthearted positivity movement. Lizzo is a role like to live life authentically characters such as MJ in “Spider- model and a reminder that we could and unapologetically — “Dirty Man: Homecoming,” tackling the all use a little more self-love. Computer” is, fundamentally, physical athleticism and vocal an ode to self-love and sexual requirements of her role in “The Callie Xu, Editorial Board liberation, to being “different” and Greatest Showman” and evoking the member: Chloe x Halle owning it. EMMA MCINTYRE/GETTY IMAGES FOR THE RECORDING ACADEMY/TNS raw emotion required of playing her I love her. I love her so much. 14 Wednesday, February 24, 2021 Classi!eds The Daily Tar Heel

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© 2015 The Mepham Group. All rights reserved. The Daily Tar Heel News Wednesday, February 24, 2021 15 ‘REALITIES OF A COMPLEX GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE’ Q&A: Chancellor clarifies role in settlement By Maddie Ellis DTH: What was the nature of these “general broad updates?” University Editor [email protected] KG: There were a variety of options that were being considered over the, over a lengthy period of time. I want to emphasize It’s been one month since the start of the semester and two that this settlement was the first sort of confrontation that weeks since the start of partial in-person instruction. I had with the realities of a complex governance structure. University Desk Editor Maddie Ellis talked with As I said before, Clayton worked directly with members of Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz about the progress of the the Board of Governors on the disposition of the monument spring semester, the fallout from the rush on Franklin Street and not on my behalf. So he was working directly with them, and clarification on his campus message regarding his role and I was provided with high-level updates around a variety in the Silent Sam settlement. of different options.

THE DAILY TAR HEEL: How are you feeling about the progress of DTH: Were you aware prior to Nov. 27 that these discussions the spring semester? were with the N.C. Sons of Confederate Veterans?

KEVIN GUSKIEWICZ: I think our extensive planning is certainly KG: I learned the specific details in the days leading up to paying off. We relied on science and data to make all of the settlement, and as I mentioned in my campus message our decisions — consulting our world renowned infectious last week, I asked for further clarification around (the disease experts and our public health officials. I think we’ve settlement) in a message that I sent out to President Roper also included a diverse group of individuals around campus on Dec. 11. through our Campus and Community Advisory Committee. And I think the result is that we’re in a really strong position DTH: Did you have an opportunity to object to or amend the PHOTO COURTESY OF JON GARDINER one month into the semester. settlement prior to it being finalized? Kevin Guskiewicz

DTH: How are you feeling the next academic year? KG: I did not. I had learned of the details, as I said, very settlement. But again, the settlement was with the Board of shortly before. As I said, I was not a decision-maker with Governors and the UNC System, and the campus was not KG: We’re going to continue to collect data. So we’re learning this. The Board of Governors back in December of 2018 took party to the settlement. So I was not authorized to disclose throughout the process about what’s working, what’s not control of that decision. details that they had not yet made public. working. And I think so far as we think about the fall semester, we are hopeful that we can try to be back into a DTH: At a Faculty Council meeting on Dec. 6, you said, “We DTH: In hindsight, do you believe that you could have normal campus environment ... were not consulted,” regarding the negotiations for the $2.5 been more transparent about your role in the Silent Sam We’re encouraged, also, by the increasing pace of vaccine million trust. Was Clayton Somers included in that “we?” settlement upfront? rollout and the decreasing trends in case counts locally. But, and our experts will agree, that the vaccine will be widely KG: Clayton Somers’ role on this project was working KG: I am going to talk about this a bit at Faculty Council available by the beginning of the fall semester, so that’s good specifically for the Board of Governors. (Friday). This was a challenge for our campus for decades. news. And I’ll just add that we are hopeful that the vast Silent Sam has caused a lot of pain on our campus for majority of our courses will be in person, and on campus DTH: Why did you not disclose Clayton Somers’ role in the decades. I know that the news of this most recent legal ... It’s still very likely we’ll have to have precautions put in negotiations until now, since he does have a role at UNC- settlement reopened some of those wounds for many place for that in-person experience. And we don’t know Chapel Hill? people on our campus. And so even though the statue’s exactly what that will look like but I certainly think that we’ll gone, the painful history of race on our campus remains. continue to learn through the second half of this semester. KG: Because it’s not uncommon to have members of our team Silent Sam was a symbol, but those issues didn’t disappear at UNC-Chapel Hill or at other System schools working on when the statue was removed. I think that’s why the first Guskiewicz said in a campus message on Feb. 11 that he was specific projects for the System office or for the Board of and most important part of our strategic plan is build “aware of” discussions occurring through the UNC System Governors. And so, he was not reporting to me on a specific our community together. I’m excited about the change regarding the disposition of the Silent Sam monument, but project. He was working for the Board of Governors.n that’s happening on our campus, slowly but surely, even that he did not “participate in” these negotiations. during the pandemic. From the new Diversity, Equity and Guskiewicz said Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs Clayton DTH: Did you know about the Nov. 21 settlement with the UNC Inclusion Council to the History, Race and A Way Forward Somers was asked to work with the Board of Governors to System and the SCV, involving the $74,999, before it was made commission and many other important initiatives — I find a solution for the statue, and once Guskiewicz became public, around the time of the BOG op-ed published on Dec. 16? think we are making a lot of progress. interim chancellor, Somers provided him with “general broad updates regarding the progress of this project.” KG: I learned a lot of the details in the days leading up to the Twitter: @madelinellis Faculty discusses Silent Sam, AAUP letter Other topics included cultural president of the campus AAUP chapter, told Silent Sam off UNC’s campus. “As director of the American Indian Center, The Daily Tar Heel it was disappointing that “I’ve said all that I want or will say on the I was just working on my resignation letter, centers, vaccine roll out and Chapman suggested her view of the situation matter of the Confederate monument or the because I can’t go in again and look the women plans for future semesters was more representative of faculty opinion than settlement,” he said, “and I’d now like to turn that I work with in the face, knowing how the AAUP’s statement. to other important items.” underpaid they are,” he said. By Maeve Sheehey Chapter member Sherryl Kleinman, who Chavis said it’s difficult to see that the Enterprise Director serves on the Executive Committee, added that Coming semesters University got $8 million in funding for the [email protected] Chapman’s comments sent the message that Program for Public Discourse while knowing asking questions of the chancellor would be The low positivity rate from mandatory his staff remains so underfunded. Chairperson of the Faculty Mimi Chapman associated with recklessness. on-campus testing this semester is promising, He also brought up an experience through said she disagreed with a recent statement Moving on from the AAUP statement, Guskiewicz said. his work on the History, Race and a Way from a group of UNC professors calling on Chapman compared Silent Sam to a lightning rod. As UNC looks ahead to “establishing normal Forward commission when he was asked to Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz to resign — and “It keeps us focused on the statue and campus operations” for the fall semester, he write the land acknowledgment for UNC being that it does not represent the entire University the settlement and diverts our attention said it’s a good sign that current in-person on stolen Native American land. faculty — at a Faculty Council meeting Friday. from the other structures on our campus classes are going well. “It’s like me, writing my own thank you note The statement, posted by UNC-Chapel that perpetuate racism — both literal and Looking ahead to the summer session, for a gift that was taken from me,” he said. “I’m Hill’s chapter of the American Association of figurative — and that desperately need our Provost Bob Blouin said it will likely look not excited about that and I’m tired. I’m tired University Professors on Feb. 11, followed the attention and focus,” she said. similar to last summer, which was conducted of being in the same place I was this time last revelation that UNC official Clayton Somers Now that the chancellor has responded to remotely. Still, Blouin said the University is year as far as funding and my level of belonging was involved in the negotiations for the questions about the Silent Sam settlement with not ruling out any possibility of face-to-face at this University.” UNC System’s 2019 Silent Sam settlements. his campus message, Chapman said those who interaction in summer classes. In response, Guskiewicz said he and Blouin Members of UNC’s AAUP chapter cited “serial can likely tell the rest of the story are at the As for the fall, Blouin said the University had a talk last week about the importance dishonesty” from the chancellor and his fellow system and BOG level. will try to make the semester as normal as of cultural centers at UNC. He said they are leaders that caused them to lose trust in the “If we want further answers, that is the place possible, though it is a “moving target.” He working on a plan to ensure they can be funded University’s leadership. to look,” she said. said UNC leaders have been consulting with and thrive, as well as working to raise private Chapman said she heard about this Following Chapman’s remarks, Guskiewicz experts about the coming semesters, and that funds for them. statement prior to its publication and wrote said the Silent Sam settlement in November 2019 the increased pace of vaccine rollout will be “So, hang with us,” Guskiewicz said. “I’m to the president of the AAUP chapter, which was his first major encounter with the tensions important to a successful fall. asking you to. You’re doing an incredible job has roughly 70 members, to let him know she of UNC System’s complex governance structure. there — I understand on limited resources, but disagreed with the choice. Other leaders in On the matter of Silent Sam, Guskiewicz Build our Community Together we’re committed to you.” faculty governance did the same, calling the said the authority lies with the BOG, as it did in decision “reckless,” she said. November 2019. Both Blouin and Guskiewicz brought up Other topics At the meeting, Chapman and University “Some of you wish that I had rallied a public progress within the University’s strategic leaders expressed an interest in moving fight against the settlement the moment I plan, specifically its first initiative: “Build Our The council also voted to pass a resolution forward, past discussions solely focused on the learned it was under consideration — even if Community Together.” in support of recommendations from the Silent Sam settlement. Other topics brought that meant risking that the monument would But Larry Chavis, director of UNC’s American Committee on Appointments, Promotion and up at the meeting included UNC’s relationship be forced back onto campus,” he said. “That Indian Center, said his program isn’t feeling the Tenure. Among them were a recommendation with its cultural centers, vaccine rollout was a real risk. And it was not a risk that I was effects of this initiative. While he feels supported that the University should continue to offer in Orange County and plans for the next willing to take at that time.” as a business school professor, he said it isn’t the faculty a tenure-clock extension due to semesters at UNC. The council also approved He reiterated his commitment to keeping same where the AIC is concerned. COVID-19, and that those across campus be a recommendation aimed at “mitigating the mindful of not placing additional demands on impacts of COVID-19 on faculty careers.” “I’ve said all that I want or will say on the matter of the faculty as they deal with the pandemic. ‘A lightning rod’ Confederate monument or the settlement, and I’d now like to The next Faculty Council meeting will take place on Friday, March 19. In response to Chapman’s comments at turn to other important items.” the meeting, history professor Jay Smith, vice Twitter: @MaeveSheehey Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz 16 Wednesday, February 24, 2021 News The Daily Tar Heel

COVID!19 FINANCES Orange County steps up housing assistance Residents and landlords pandemic due to a nationwide trend of increasing rent and home prices. alike have been The program provides emergency struggling to pay bills funds to help Orange County residents with low incomes prevent By Emmy Trivette eviction and homelessness, as well as Staff Writer secure and maintain stable housing. [email protected] “As housing practitioners, it’s our dream to build these programs up, it’s Renters and landlords alike a dream to be able to provide a more are struggling to keep up with the researched and higher level of service turning tides of the housing market to people in need,” Emila Sutton, in a pandemic. The Orange County director of Housing and Community Emergency Housing Assistance Development for Orange County, said. program has stepped up to Sutton said the office is now accommodate those in unpredictable receiving 300 applications a month, living situations. compared to 34 applications in April Delores Bailey is the executive 2020. The increase in applications is director of EmPOWERment, Inc., in part because of how the program a Chapel Hill-based nonprofit has worked to lower the access barrier that helps renters who are fearful for residents in immediate need of of eviction and homeowners who housing aid. cannot pay their mortgages. The Prior to the pandemic, while Sutton pandemic has had a devastating was transitioning into her director impact on renters and homeowners position in September 2019, she said DTH/CAROLINE BITTENBENDER in Orange County, Bailey said. there was only a shell of what would A Northside neighborhood resident reclines on their porch on Feb. 8, 2021. Chapel Hill’s affordable housing plan To help solve the looming housing become the Housing and Community focuses on emergency housing, public housing communities, and rehabilitation projects during the pandemic. crisis, the Orange County Housing Development program. $75,000 of and Community Development local funds had been allocated by their department guidelines did Hillsborough and the county get their paperwork together and department coordinated with the the department in 2017 toward risk not coordinate with each other housing aid, along with the CARES get letters to landlords to let them towns of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and mitigation and housing stabilization. efficiently. For example, Sutton said funding that ran out in December. know that the money is coming in.” Hillsborough to pool housing funds With few to no guidelines for services Chapel Hill provided may Sutton said these issues are and coordinate aid guidelines. utilizing these funds, Sutton said her not have been offered in Carrboro What comes next constantly on the minds of her department agreed the best use was or another town. Additionally, and her staff. At this moment, What the program is to help individuals calling their offices she said the programs were not Bailey said she predicts a mass the staff awaits funds from the for aid to avoid eviction when they advertised very well, so they were eviction when the federal eviction Community Development Block The goal of the Emergency couldn’t make rent. Driving emergency underutilized. moratorium is lifted, as landlords Grant and Emergency Rental Housing Assistance program is to checks to landlords to prevent renters Sutton said when the pandemic are also struggling to pay their bills. Assistance Program, which will help people stay in their housing from sliding into further debt was one hit, the departments realized the “We have HUD-certified housing be the next phase of development and avoid increased homelessness, of the few things their department most effective way for the programs counselors that work directly with for their department. Nate Broman-Fulks, affordable focused on at the time. to function together would be by Orange County and the emergency Alexandra Myers contributed housing manager for Chapel Hill, But Sutton said the housing combining funding and guidelines. housing fund that Orange County reporting. said. He said affordable housing is a practitioners throughout the towns The department utilized has,” Bailey said. “So we’re long-term need that will outlast the of Orange County realized that local funds from Chapel Hill, connecting people, helping them Twitter: @EmmyTrivette

POLITICS Two candidates vie for chief public defender seat

By Susie Webb primarily my main focus is still to of that,” Baker-Harrell said. Staff Writer offer legal services but also make Mannette’s priorities would focus [email protected] sure that we protect our clients and on supporting the attorneys in the also protect other attorneys and staff office and addressing the issue of Two attorneys are vying for the members in the office,” she said. racial equity. One way Mannette position of chief public defender in Currently, clients aren’t being would approach this would be the Orange and Chatham judicial brought to court unless their case requiring potential jurors to watch a district. The position was left will be resolved. The district has also video on implicit bias. vacant after the former chief public made tablets available at sites in each “Racial equity in the criminal justice defender, Susan Seahorn, retired in county for clients who don’t have system is by far, I think, the thing that late 2020. internet access, Baker-Harrell said. needs the most focus,” she said. The two attorneys in the running Another one of Baker-Harrell’s As for why Mannette wants the are Woodrena Baker-Harrell and Kellie Mannette Woodrena Baker-Harrell priorities would be making the office position, she addressed the importance Kellie Mannette. that at every decision-making stage an elected position. Senior Resident “client-focused.” For example, she of working within the community. A chief public defender runs and would push for using funds to have “I want to see us at the forefront maintains the public defender’s in the criminal justice system that Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour the interests and needs of indigent will ultimately make the decision, and an in-house interpreter for clients of this work,” she said. “I want to office. They create policies and who don’t speak English, she said. see us using what we’ve learned work on issues such as the disparate clients that they represent are being he is not required to follow the vote. considered,” Fenhagen said. Baker-Harrell has been serving “When I say I believe in the and what social science has put impact of court fees, pretrial reform Constitution, I want to continue out and what we’ve seen to create and racial equity, Caitlin Fenhagen, An advisory vote was held among as the interim chief public defender lawyers in the district on who they’d since Dec. 1, 2020. She said her main to fight to make that Constitution a better community.” criminal justice resource director for make our legal system work fairly Fenhagen said the position should Orange County, said. prefer for the position. Baker-Harrell focus, should she get the position, received 85 votes, while Mannette would be to continue operating with for everyone regardless of their be filled by the beginning of March. “The chief public defender has a skin color, their gender, sexual higher duty, and that is to make sure received 67 votes. precautions due to the pandemic. But the chief public defender is not “Because of COVID, I think orientation, gender orientation, all Twitter: @SKWebb73 New Wegmans location set to open in Chapel Hill By Ian Chrisafis delayed and amended several times. a cut-through in order to avoid traffic Sudol said because of the significant store profits and property valuation. Staff Writer In 2018, the store was downsized on the main roads. amount of traffic Wegmans would Chapel Hill Town Manager [email protected] from 130,000 square feet to 102,010 When concerns about traffic were add, the developer was required to Maurice Jones said in an email the square feet in an effort to reduce its first broached in 2019, the store implement traffic-calming measures. key identifier of a performance- After years of delays due to environmental footprint. obtained a modified special use The extent of these measures include based incentive is that Wegmans concern from residents over traffic “From the time we were deciding permit to create a street connection all-way stop signs and an increased must numerically prove their value and town planning, a new Wegmans on this location, the town has been through nearby State Employees number of speed limit signs in the to the community before it reaps grocery store is opening at 1810 a great partner,” Laura Camera, Credit Union, which will connect surrounding neighborhood. any governmental benefits. Similar Fordham Road on Feb. 24 in the a public relations specialist for Wegmans to U.S. Highway 15-501. Sudol also said in response to early incentives have been awarded University Heights neighborhood. Wegmans, said in an email. Goddin said he believes that at the backlash about the traffic strategies, to Carraway Village for road The Wegmans brand hails from Due to the location of the new direction of a developer for Wegmans, the Town planning department improvements, Glen Lennox for Rochester, New York, but since the store, residents of University Heights the Town scrapped a plan that would has met with residents several creation of office space and Well Dot first store opened in 1916, the chain raised concerns about the already have mitigated traffic in favor of an times, including door-to-door Inc. for locating in Chapel Hill. has expanded to Pennsylvania, New overburdened streets getting even alternate strategy that constrains traffic walkthroughs of the neighborhood While traffic in the neighborhood Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, more potential traffic. to cut-through routes. The streets in and open meetings at local libraries. may increase, Wegmans is providing Virginia and North Carolina. The “The site chosen for Wegmans is University Heights are narrow and Goddin also said he disapproved new jobs to the community. With store is known for its wide variety of totally inappropriate for a business lack sidewalks, making an increase in of the financial incentives that were a few positions still needing to local and organic products, as well as that will generate the volume of car travel a potential danger. offered to the grocery store chain. be filled, Wegmans could provide a selection of restaurant-style foods. traffic Wegmans will generate,” John “We knew about the possibility One performance-based incentive the Town with some much needed Wegmans obtained its special use Goddin, a resident of University of cut-through traffic,” Michael for Wegmans — once it opens — economic stimulation. permit to open a store in 2017, but Heights, said in an email. Sudol, a planner for the Town of includes an improved tax valuation since then, construction has been The neighborhood is often used as Chapel Hill, said. if it reaches benchmarks for hiring, Twitter: @ChrisafisIan