A group of African American business leaders said it has heard back from the NFL about establishing a team in Oakland that would be wholly- or majority-owned by an African American.

The idea is in its preliminary stages, but the group put forth three options to create the team and the NFL did not reject them, said Ray Bobbitt, chair and spokesman for the African American Sports and Entertainment Group, which is the group of leaders.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.