LeBron James Archives - Chicago Reader

A white man in a burgundy shirt and gray vest sits left at a table in a bar, across from a Black man in a Cleveland Cavaliers T-shirt and baseball cap

King James explores basketball and male bonding

by Sheri Flanders March 16, 2022March 21, 2022

I’ve always been ambivalent about the use of land acknowledgements in the arts sector, but as I am not of Indigenous descent, I can’t speak for Indigenous opinions on the matter. At the world premiere of King James at Steppenwolf, the audience was treated to not only a land acknowledgement, but also to what I […]

Columns & Opinion

The James rules

by Ben Joravsky April 28, 2021August 18, 2021

MAGA plays its LeBron card to scare white people into voting against the Democrats.

Columns & Opinion

Move over, Iron Mike

by Ben Joravsky September 1, 2020August 18, 2021

Urlacher leads the charge for Trump’s white backlash campaign.

Columns & Opinion

Grave robbers

by Ben Joravsky June 16, 2020August 18, 2021

Hey, MAGA, stop using Dr. King to justify police brutality.

News & Politics

Bouncing back

by Patrick Z. McGavin March 8, 2019August 18, 2021

Hometown basketball phenom Markese Jacobs was poised to bring glory to DePaul—until he heard a pop in his knee.

Blogs

Donald Trump is Bruce Rauner’s useful idiot—and vice versa

by Ben Joravsky August 6, 2018August 18, 2021

If you want to know why Bruce Rauner doesn’t know what to say about Donald Trump, consider the fallout from the president’s latest Twitter war juxtaposed with POTUS’s proposed capital gains tax cut. One of which got a ton of publicity, the other almost none at all. The tweet storm has to do with LeBron […]