Barack Obama Participating in Virtual Commencement Ceremonies for 2020 Graduates

As COVID-19 continues to ravage the United States, President Donald Trump has made headlines for something completely different — claiming that former President Barack Obama attempted to sabotage the Trump administration (or as he called it on Twitter, "Obamagate").

By Erik Pedersen

It's not every day Barack Obama gives your graduation speech.  In honor of LeBron James' star-studded virtual "Graduate Together" ceremony for the class of 2020 on Saturday night, the 44th president of the United States stepped up to the plate to deliver some uplifting words in these challenging times.  After all, the coronavirus pandemic and social distancing protocols have shuttered schools for months and put an end to traditional graduation ceremonies this year.

Leave it to former president Barack Obama to bring us a bit of hope and positivity amid the coronavirus pandemic.

As many of you know, grad season has been heavily affected due to the current ongoing pandemic. Nonetheless, many public figures have been using their platforms to give uplifting words to the graduating class of 2020 as they continue to move on to the next phases within their lives.

In his first major address since the country went into lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic, former US president Barack Obama‘s speech read like an indictment of Donald Trump‘s response to the global health crises. The 58-year-old delivered a commencement speech to graduates at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) on May 16, and offered his words of wisdom.

Former US president Barack Obama, 58, and Former First Lady Michelle Obama, 56, posted a clip of themselves reading a kid’s book to give parents across the country “a break” from home schooling their children. The couple read The Word Collector by Peter H. Reynolds and emphasized the importance of libraries. “It’s a fun book that vividly illustrates the transformative power of words, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did,” Barack said of the kid’s book.

Roommates, it has been months since the United States has been under social distancing guidelines, and Donald Trump has taken many shots at our Forever President! Barack Obama, however, has not commented on how the government is handling the virus…until now.

By Peter White

In a very short period of time, former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama have become a documentary force with their production company Higher Ground. Partnered with Netflix, they won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature last year (for American Factory), and are likely to be in Oscar contention again this year for Crip Camp.

Barack and Michelle Obama will be delivering words of wisdom in a few commencement speeches in some upcoming graduation specials.

Just when you thought that you had watched all that Netflix has to offer, a Michelle Obama documentary drops and we can only imagine how inspiring it will be.

Michelle Obama gives an intimate look at her life before, during and after her role as the first lady of the United States of America in the trailer for Netflix's Becoming. The documentary feature shares the name of Obama's best-selling 2018 memoir and recounts some of the same history of her life, including her time at the White House.

Where other docs go deep, Netflix’s Michelle Obama portrait stays shallow, but the former FLOTUS’s inspirational personality comes through loud and clear.