Class of 2020, We Celebrate YOU!
Simulcast on the major television networks and online, it’s a graduation celebration for the Class of 2020 everywhere.
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 will include 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.
Former U.S. President Barack Obama will deliver a commencement speech during the event.
The program is scheduled to include appearances by:
- Bad Bunny
- Chika
- YBN Cordae
- Charli D’Amelio
- Dixie D’Amelio
- LeBron James
- Loren Gray
- H.E.R.
- Jonas Brothers
- Brandan “Bmike” Odums
- Ben Platt
- Henry Platt
- Jonah Platt
- Megan Rapinoe
- Yara Shahidi
- Lena Waithe
- Pharrell Williams
- Malala Yousafzai
