Some analysts complain that ordinary blacks see little benefit from these companies because many black owners rely on white managers.
Fowler would be the second black owner in the four major North American professional sports leagues.
He introduced land reforms, which were supposed to give the land claimed by white people back to the (original) black owners.
Three teams with black owners participate at various levels.
That would have made him the league's first black owner.
Once the sale is approved by the association, the buyers will be the first black owners of a major American professional sports franchise.
Lee pointed out that he and Bynoe had actually been preceded by black owners in professional baseball.
Drive), white business owners once lived behind their stores, but in the 1940s, black owners started taking over these businesses.
There must also be black owners, but that is society's problem more than sport's problem.
The morning paper said there's no black owners of baseball teams.