Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020

Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 is an American television special that was simulcasted on the major television networks and online on May 16, 2020. Created by the XQ Institute, the LeBron James Family Foundation, and the Entertainment Industry Foundation, the special was curated by basketball player LeBron James in collaboration with high school students and educators across the United States, including the American Federation of Teachers. The broadcast included a variety of commencement addresses, celebrity performances and inspirational vignettes aimed at high school students, whose graduation ceremonies and proms were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, due to it causing the closure of most schools worldwide.

Appearances

 * LeBron James, host
 * Zendaya, actress
 * Kevin Hart, actor
 * Yara Shahidi, actress
 * Kane Brown & Maren Morris, singer
 * Timothée Chalamet, actor
 * Rodney Robinson, educator
 * Megan Rapinoe, athlete
 * Bad Bunny, singer
 * Jwalt, rapper
 * Kumail Nanjiani, actor (via Animal Crossing)
 * Olivia Wilde, actor
 * Malala Yousafzai, activist
 * Lena Waithe, screenwriter
 * Julianne Moore, actress
 * Shaquille O'Neal, athlete
 * Chris Harrison, television personality
 * Dave Matthews, musician
 * Loren Gray, singer
 * The Dolan Twins, internet personalities
 * Lana Condor, actress
 * Liza Koshy, actress
 * Pharrell Williams, singer
 * Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States

Broadcast
The special was simulcasted on May 16, 2020, at 8pm EST on the major U.S. broadcast television networks ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC, except PBS due to flex programming on member stations over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. It was also simulcasted on television networks California Music Channel and The CW, on Spanish-language network Univision, and on cable networks CNN, Fox Business, Fox News, Freeform, and MSNBC. It was also available for streaming in platforms such as ABC News Live, Associated Press, Bleacher Report, Complex Networks, Facebook, FoxNow, Hulu, Instagram, NBC News Now, NowThis News, PeopleTV, The Roku Channel, Roland Martin Unfiltered, Reuters, Sirius XM, Snapchat, TikTok, USO, The Washington Post, and YouTube.

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Total Viewership = 14.674