Thanks – I like the black footer, so I want to keep that. Just don’t like the “Neve | Powered By WordPress” part. I’ll keep the “N” option open for other adjustments in the future.
They made this a lot trickier to remove on the free version than other themes/previous versions, but I found an excellent resource that did the trick. I chose option #3:
https://wd-kb.com/content/9/132/en/remove-powered-by-neve-in-neve-wordpress-theme.html.