robert f. smith
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If the Phoenix Suns Sale Goes Through Without Including Any Non-White Partners, The NBA’s Gotten It All Wrong
Rooting out racism in sports starts at the top. Robert Sarver was all the proof the Association needed.
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The NFL Needs To Force Daniel Snyder To Make A Big, Black Deal
Byron Allen? Jay-Z and Jeff Bezos? Robert F. Smith? We don't care. Just get it done.
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Mellody Hobson Set To Become Part Owner of the Denver Broncos
For the first time, the NFL will have a Black woman with an equity stake in a team
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Magic Johnson Reportedly In Bid To Buy Denver Broncos
The NFL squad would be the second major pro team he owns a piece of.
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Did the NFL Just Hint That It Will Finally Have Black Ownership?
The least-covered part of football's Rooney Rule changes is the most important one.
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NFL Hires Former AG Loretta Lynch To Fight Discrimination Lawsuit
The league's lily-white ownership will now be defended by the first Black woman attorney general
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Minnesota Vikings Hire Kwesi Adofo-Mensah as New GM
He'll be the 7th Black NFL GM but there are still no Black owners
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Could Billionaire Robert F. Smith Become the NFL’s 1st Black Owner?
The prolific philanthropist and entrepreneur would make our ancestors extremely proud.
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Turns Out, Kanye Is Not the Richest Black Man in America [Corrected]
Correction: 3/18/2021, 12:15 p.m. ET: *record scratch* Laaaaaa, la, la, laaaa wait ‘til we (and a bunch of other media) get our wealth valuations wrong. Kanye West is actually not the richest Black man in the U.S. On Thursday morning, a whole Kanye-kerfuffle erupted including a now-retracted Forbes article stating that the rapper-entrepreneur-former-presidential-candidate had become…
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Surprise! Oprah Matches $1.15 Million in Donations to UNCF
You get a college education, and you get a college education, and you get a college education! Okay, Oprah didn’t say that when she appeared at the United Negro College Fund’s Maya Angelou Women Who Lead Luncheon in Charlotte, N.C. last Saturday—at least, not to the best of our knowledge. But she did say, “We…