Artists, athletes, musicians, commencement speakers, influencers, and cultural icons will show their support for the High School Class of 2020.
Direction
James Merryman & Hamish Hamilton stitched remote chaos into coherence.
Writing
Obama's commencement speech: a masterclass in pandemic-era rhetoric.
Director
James B. Merryman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This broadcast aired across ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC simultaneously—a TV event unseen since 9/11 coverage, marking how desperately America needed collective ritual in isolation.
Rodney Robinson, the National Teacher of the Year featured, taught in a juvenile detention center—his inclusion was deliberate pushback against 'pandemic as equalizer' narratives.
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