{"id":31260,"date":"2016-11-25T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/lebron-james-donates-2-and-a-half-million-dollars-to-smithsonian\/"},"modified":"2016-11-25T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T18:00:00","slug":"lebron-james-donates-2-and-a-half-million-dollars-to-smithsonian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/culture\/lebron-james-donates-2-and-a-half-million-dollars-to-smithsonian\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James Donates $2.5 Million to NMAAHC in Support of Muhammad Ali Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James has put his money where his mouth is. The perennial All-Star and magnate is coming off a week where his and the efforts of his close friends and business associates were undermined when they were referred to as a &#x201C;posse.&#x201D; LeBron addressed the media to expound upon the potentially negative connotations of such a word when used to describe an assemblage of African American men who essentially came from nothing and have since become leaders and role models in their respective fields.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, that leadership took shape in the form of a $2.5 Million donation pledge to the Smithsonian&#x2019;s newly erected <a href=\"https:\/\/nmaahc.si.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">National Museum of African American History and Culture<\/a> (NMAAHC), on behalf of the LeBron James Family Foundation and Maverick Carter. The donation was provided to support a display celebrating the legacy of Muhammad Ali.<\/p>\n<p>In the presentation, not only is Ali&#x2019;s athletic career honored but additional light is also shone on his work as a humanitarian and activist. LeBron&#x2019;s support comes as no surprise when you take into consideration his outspokenness on widespread and national societal issues and his being a proponent of doing his best to create and foster a better world through his efforts on and off the court.<\/p>\n<p>NMAAHC&#x2019;s curator of the Sports Gallery, Damion Thomas, had this to say about LeBron; &#x201C;We are extremely grateful to LeBron James for his support of the museum. As the most socially active superstar in sports today, LeBron James is a testament to the influence of Muhammad Ali. Ali embodied the racial and social tumult of his times, blurring lines between politics and sports, activism and entertainment.&#x201D;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James follows Michael Jordan in donating to the museum celebrating African American History and Culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3035],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>LeBron James Donates $2.5 Million to NMAAHC in Support of Muhammad Ali Exhibit - Merry Jane<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/culture\/lebron-james-donates-2-and-a-half-million-dollars-to-smithsonian\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LeBron James Donates $2.5 Million to NMAAHC in Support of Muhammad Ali Exhibit - 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