{"id":1443680,"date":"2021-09-12T15:01:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T19:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1443680"},"modified":"2026-07-25T17:16:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:16:34","slug":"maia-chaka-becomes-first-black-woman-to-referee-an-nfl-game-in-panthers-jets-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1443680","title":{"rendered":"Maia Chaka becomes first Black woman to referee an NFL game in Panthers-Jets matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NFL history was made at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte on Sunday \u2014 and it wasn&#8217;t by someone wearing a jersey. Maia Chaka became the first Black woman to \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article254185973.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article254185973.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/article254185973.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Maia Chaka becomes first Black woman to referee an NFL game in Panthers-Jets matchup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFL history was made at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte on Sunday \u2014 and it wasn&#8217;t by someone wearing a jersey. Maia Chaka became the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-panthers","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-88-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1443680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1894787,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443680\/revisions\/1894787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1443680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1443680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1443680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}