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

Name	School	Location	Role
Priscilla Arceo	Santa Ana High School	Orange County, California
Justin "Jwalt" Walton	Oakland School for the Arts	Oakland, California
Ervin Odom	Akron Early College High School	Akron, Ohio
Shelbie Rash	Skyline High School	Mesa, Arizona
Jordan Lewis	Washington High School	Phoenix, Arizona
Halah Berglin	Williams Field High School	Gilbert, Arizona
Kayla Diaz	Franklin High School
Johnny Corte	Saguaro High School	Scottsdale, Arizona
Mason Whitaker	Ironwood Ridge High School	Oro Valley, Arizona
Parker Fowler	Greenway High School	Phoenix, Arizona
Morgann Kelly	Desert Vista High School	Phoenix, Arizona
Lauren Grimm	Thunderbird High School	Phoenix, Arizona
Caleb Fearing	Mojave High School	North Las Vegas, Nevada
Christian Johnson	Ron Brown College Preparatory High School	Washington, D.C.
Morgan Schragger	Hopewell Valley Central High School	Pennington, New Jersey	Introducing H.E.R.
Sydney Guine	Los Angeles County High School for the Arts	Los Angeles, California	Introducing H.E.R.
Eliza Andrus	Ocean Township High School	Oakhurst, New Jersey	Introducing the Graduation Medley by Henry, Jonah, and Ben Platt
Ian Coursey	Our Lady of Good Counsel High School	Olney, Maryland	Introducing the Graduation Medley by Henry, Jonah, and Ben Platt
Emily Liang	Oakland High School	Oakland, California	Introducing YBN Cordae
Jordan Orion	Early College High School	Killeen, Texas	Introducing YBN Cordae
Aniyah Fisher	Kenwood Academy High School	Chicago, Illinois	Introducing the commencement by Barack Obama

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