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GBN Daily Drop Podcast: Washington Commanders President Jason Wright, the 1st Black Person to Run an NFL Franchise (LISTEN)

GBN Daily Drop Podcast: Washington Commanders President Jason Wright, the 1st Black Person to Run an NFL Franchise (LISTEN)

By goodblacknews on February 6, 2022

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson)

Here is GBN’s Daily Drop for Sunday, February 6th on Washington Commanders president Jason Wright, the first Black person to run a National Football League franchise.

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT:

Hey, this Lori Lakin Hutcherson, founder and editor in chief of GoodBlackNews.org, here to share with you a daily drop of Good Black News for Sunday, February 6th, 2022, based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar” published by Workman Publishing. It’s in the category for Black Firsts we call “It’s About Time”:

Not many NFL players set their post-career sights on graduate school, but former pro running back Jason Wright traded in his cleats for wingtips when he earned his master’s degree in business administration from University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 2013.

Wright scored even bigger in 2020 when he became President of the Washington Football team (now officially known as the Washington Commanders) and the first Black person to run a National Football League franchise.

If you want to learn more about Wright, links are provided in today’s show notes.

This has been a daily drop of Good Black News, based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar for 2022,” published by Workman Publishing, and available at workman.com, Amazon, Bookshop and other online retailers.

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Former Running Back Jason Wright Named President of NFL’s Washington Football Team

Former Running Back Jason Wright Named President of NFL’s Washington Football Team

By goodblacknews on August 20, 2020

Former National Football League running back Jason Wright was named the first Black president of an NFL team on Monday, according to The Washington Post. He will be heading up the Washington Football Team.

The hiring by team owner Daniel Snyder of the 38-year-old Wright, who rose quickly in the business world after getting an MBA at the University of Chicago and became a partner at McKinsey & Company, comes at a difficult time for a franchise that in past years was one league’s strongest.

To quote the Washington Post:

The team has had eight losing seasons in the last 11 years; it recently dropped its 87-year-old name, which is considered a racial slur, under pressure from sponsors; it has commissioned an investigation of its corporate culture after The Washington Post published a story detailing allegations of sexual harassment and verbal abuse; and Snyder’s three minority partners want to sell their roughly 40 percent stake in the team.

Yet Wright, who has lived in the Washington area since 2013, said he understands what waits for him when he takes over the team’s business operations next week.

“A lot of the high-stakes stuff that you see in and around the club at this time is something that I’m quite familiar with,” he said. “Hopefully, having not grown up in [Washington’s] front office allows me to bring some catalytic thinking. It’s the same reason organizations bring in people externally — to push the thinking, to have new, creative ways of thinking about things [and] maybe be a bit disruptive.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/08/17/jason-wright-hired-president-washington-football-team/