{"id":14225,"date":"2022-06-10T15:30:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T15:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/mellody-hobson-to-become-first-black-female-nfl-owner-with-broncos-deal"},"modified":"2022-10-18T10:19:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T10:19:23","slug":"mellody-hobson-to-become-first-black-female-nfl-owner-with-broncos-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/mellody-hobson-to-become-first-black-female-nfl-owner-with-broncos-deal","title":{"rendered":"Mellody Hobson To Become First Black Female NFL Owner With Broncos Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: John Lamparski \/ Getty B lack women have been out here getting it since the dawn of time, and even during the rough patch of slavery showed a resilience that speaks to their innate strength from birth. One of those lovely ladies currently doing the damn thing is Mellody Hobson, President of Ariel Investments, Starbucks chairwoman and soon-to-be Denver Broncos co-owner following a record-breaking buyout by multibillionaire Rob Walton. Hobson, now the first Black woman to have equity in the NFL, gains the title due to her stake in The Walton-Penner ownership group that&#8217;s spearheading the Broncos deal. Walton mentions Hobson specifically in the official press statement, speaking of being &#8220;excited&#8221; to have her as an addition to the team. &#8220; Beyond her role at Ariel, Mellody is an influential leader in corporate and civic organizations across the nation,&#8221; this announcement reads, going on to add, &#8220;Mellody currently serves as Chair of the Board of Starbucks Corporation and is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chairwoman of Starbucks will soon be able to add &#8220;Denver Broncos co-owner&#8221; to her already impressive resume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[181,11,58],"class_list":["post-14225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}