{"id":19077,"date":"2022-07-11T21:29:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T21:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/news\/denver-broncos-add-condoleezza-rice-to-ownership-group\/"},"modified":"2022-07-11T21:29:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T21:29:42","slug":"denver-broncos-add-condoleezza-rice-to-ownership-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/news\/denver-broncos-add-condoleezza-rice-to-ownership-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Broncos Add Condoleezza Rice to Ownership Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Denver Broncos on Monday introduced the addition of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the workforce\u2019s new possession group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Rice is the second Black girl to hitch the group, which is primarily made up of members of the Walton and Penner households, who amassed their fortunes largely by way of their stakes in Walmart. The partnership already included Mellody Hobson, the co-chief govt of Ariel Investments and the board chair of Starbucks Company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The group reached a tentative settlement in June to purchase the Broncos for $4.65 billion, greater than twice the worth of the earlier document for an N.F.L. franchise. The acquisition is predicted to be authorised earlier than the beginning of the 2022 common season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The league has denied the declare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The N.F.L. has instituted plenty of measures to extend variety in senior positions, together with launching in March a six-member variety advisory committee to overview its insurance policies, and broadening the Rooney Rule, a leaguewide guideline to extend the variety of interviews for numerous candidates for head coaches and senior positions akin to normal supervisor and workforce president.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Jason Wright turned the primary Black workforce president when he was employed by the Washington Commanders in 2020. Final week, the Las Vegas Raiders employed Sandra Douglass Morgan as workforce president, the primary Black girl to carry that submit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">However rising variety among the many league\u2019s house owners, who&#8217;re overwhelmingly white, has been harder as a result of groups change arms occasionally and since their excessive costs restrict the variety of potential consumers. In February, N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell mentioned he hoped the Broncos\u2019 new possession would come with an individual of coloration. At their annual assembly in March, the league\u2019s house owners mentioned that potential possession teams can be checked out favorably in the event that they included \u201cnumerous people who would have a major fairness stake in and involvement with the membership, together with serving because the controlling proprietor of the membership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hobson and Rice are the primary two Black girls to personal a part of a workforce, although no Black males or girls have ever been the principal house owners of a workforce. There are solely two folks of coloration who&#8217;ve majority stakes in N.F.L. groups \u2014 Shahid Khan of the Jacksonville Jaguars, who&#8217;s Pakistani American, and Kim Pegula, the Korean American co-owner of the Buffalo Payments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A number of different N.F.L. groups are principally owned by girls, however in all these situations their possession stakes had been acquired through inheritance or by marriage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Supply: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/11\/sports\/football\/condoleezza-rice-denver-broncos-nfl.html\">NY Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Denver Broncos on Monday introduced the addition of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the workforce\u2019s new possession group. Rice is the second Black girl to hitch the group, which is primarily made up of members of the Walton and Penner households, who amassed their fortunes largely by way of their stakes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19078,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19077\/revisions\/19078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}