What's news: Michael B. Jordan implores Hollywood to "invest in black staff," Barack Obama and Beyonce address the class of 2020, green shoots in the media and entertainment economy, a New York Times resignation, a Fox News apology, how TV is tackling 2020. Plus: Greg Berlanti looks back, and reviews of Love, Victor and season 4 of 13 Reasons Why. --Alex Weprin

 Taking Action

►Michael B. Jordan speaks out at anti-racism protest in L.A.: "Invest in black staff." Addressing a crowd outside the ICM Partners building on Saturday, the Just Mercy actor reflected on some of his film roles and what they have taught him about racial injustice.

Quote: "A great agent doesn’t have to be a great organizer, but a great agent could advocate for relationships with organizers." He later said, "What we are doing today will make our values heard and our voices heard. We've got to keep agitating things. We can't be complacent. We can't let this moment just pass us by, we have to continue to put our foot on their necks." The story.

+Robin Thede: Make "regular" black stories the norm on TV. The creator of HBO's A Black Lady Sketch Show and other showrunners discuss how to lower the barriers for young writers at the ATX TV Festival. "It's about opening people's eyes the way the women's movement did, the way the gay rights movement did," said Thede. "Change only happens through revolution. I'm invigorated." More.

+John Boyega expresses thanks for "love and support" following impassioned speech. "I’ll continue to use my platform to fight against the injustices and inequalities in our community, no matter what," the Star Wars actor said, as he urged everyone "to unite with a shared goal of real change." More.

+BTS and Big Hit Entertainment give $1 million to Black Lives Matter. Earlier in the week, the boy band issued a statement on Twitter: "We stand against racial discrimination. We condemn violence. You, I and we all have the right to be respected. We will stand together." More.

 Coronavirus-Era Commencement Addresses

►Barack Obama encourages graduating students: "You can create a new normal." During YouTube's Dear Class of 2020, he also encouraged the class of 2020 to vote and to help stop "the spread conflict, division and falsehoods to bully people and promote hate" on social media. The story.

+Michelle Obama's message: While delivering a commencement address during YouTube's Dear Class of 2020, the former First Lady addressed the ongoing protests following the death of George Floyd: "What's happening right now is the direct result of decades of unaddressed, prejudice, and inequality." More.

+During the same program, Beyonce Knowles delivered a speech in which she discussed the Black Lives Matter movement and the sexism existing in the industry: "Not enough Black women had a seat at the table" More.

+Also: "I believe in my heart that the people who are going to make this change happen are listening to this speech right now," Lady Gaga told graduating students... "I know right now it might not feel like there's a lot to celebrate and that's okay. It's okay to not be okay right now. I know so many people are not thinking about your time at school," Alicia Keys said...

►"Multiple positive milestones" to boost media stocks, analyst says. Guggenheim Securities' Michael Morris mentions the return of live sports, "improving advertiser sentiment, re-opening of small- and medium-sized businesses that subscribe to channel bundles" and other catalysts.

--Morris emphasized that the return of live sports to TV "appears to be well on track," mentioning the NBA's plan to resume games on July 31 and the NHL's expectation to have teams return to training camps in July. Addressing the NFL season, he wrote: "As yet, no delays have been announced. Adjustments to typical plans have included training camps to be held at team facilities (as opposed to third-party locations as has been standard), elimination of joint practices and international games, and release of a schedule designed to provide flexibility for timing or elimination of early-season games." The story.

+There is the Donald Trump x-factor though. Late Friday NFL commissioner Roger Goodell released a video apologizing for the leagues past treatment of player protests. Trump, in a late night tweet, threatened to reignite his fight with the league over players kneeling during the national anthem. More.

+In other business news: SiriusXM plans to offer $1 billion in a new debt offering due in 2030. The company will use the funds to refinance its existing debt.

►New York Times editorial page editor resigns amid uproar, staff backlash. James Bennet, who was considered a top candidate to succeed Dean Baquet as executive editor of the Times, has resigned from his position as editorial page editor amid an intense backlash to a column his section published on Wednesday. The column, written by conservative Republican U.S. senator Tom Cotton, called for the government to "Send In the Troops" to combat protests around the country stemming from the killing of George Floyd. More.

►Fox News apologizes for graphic on stock market gains after killings and civil unrest. Fox apologized for displaying the on-screen graphic showing stock-market gains following assassinations and killings of black people. The conservative cable television news channel issued the apology on Saturday after receiving criticism over the use of the on-screen chart during a Friday broadcast of Special Report with Bret Baier. The story.

►How I'm Living Now: Actress, producer Niecy Nash, "I'm a f---ing wreck." While waiting out the pandemic in her California home, the Mrs. America actress opens up about the death of George Floyd and the unease of returning to work. The interview.

 Greg Berlanti Looks Back

►Making Love, Simon fulfilled "a desire to have characters that represent all of us in movies." Decades after his Broken Hearts Club played in about 100 cinemas, prolific creator Greg Berlanti shares his journey in a guest column: "I got the satisfying film ending I always wanted." 

Quote: "One of my hopes with Love, Simon was to get a film that was mainstream and gave every LGBT kid across America an opportunity to go to theaters and see a character that was like them. I saw it as a chance to satisfy that yearning that I had as an audience member myself years before and didn't get to with Broken Hearts." The column.

►How TV is tackling voter suppression and other 2020 election year issues. The ACLU-sponsored panel on Saturday, featuring One Day at a Time co-creator Mike Royce and House of Cards creator Beau Willimon, was part of ATX Television Festival's at-home virtual programming. The story.

►Critics Choice Real TV Awards: Netflix's Cheer and VH1's RuPaul's Drag Race lead the nominees for the second annual Critics Choice Real TV Awards, announced Monday. Cheer landed a total of five nominations, including best unstructured series and best limited documentary series. RuPaul’s Drag Race also earned five noms, including best competition series and best host. Spinoff RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked! also landed a nom, for best unstructured series. The nominees.

►TV reviews: Inkoo Kang reviews Hulu's Love, Victor, writing that the series "shares many of the strengths, and unfortunately even more of the timidity, that divided [predecessor Love, Simon's] audience. The review.

+Also: Robyn Bahr reviews season 4 of Netflix's13 Reasons Why, writing that of all the seasons, Season 4 is the sloggiest of them all, begging the audience to love and sympathize with a nightmare clique of high school students, who are, yes, traumatized by all the kitchen-sink realism creator Brian Yorkey has thrown at them, but are also arrogant and self-righteous coldblooded killers." The review.

►Revolving door: International television veteran Rola Bauer has been named the new head of international television productions at MGM Television Group... Longtime Kew Media Group exec Steven Katz has landed at Shout! Factory to head up its business and legal affairs...

Obituary: Claude Heater, the famed opera singer who appeared with his face unseen as Jesus Christ in William Wyler's epic 1959 production of Ben-Hur, has died. He was 92...

In other news...

--Nathalie Bibeau's The Walrus and the Whistleblower, about a former trainer at Marineland in Niagara Falls, Ontario-turned-whistleblower, on Sunday picked up the top Audience Award at the Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival, which was forced online this year by the coronavirus pandemic.

--South Korean media group CJ Entertainment has signed a first-look deal with German production house Tresor TV that will see the two companies option each other's scripted and non-scripted formats for their respective markets.

--Author J.K. Rowling was scrutinized on Saturday when she penned a series of tweets that came under fire by some Twitter users who called the comments transphobic. As the tweets gained visibility and negative reactions, media advocacy organization GLAAD commented that, in 2020, there is "no excuse" for targeting trans people.

--To help mark Prince's 62nd birthday on Sunday (June 7), the estate of the late icon has shared a powerful message from the artist about intolerance.

What else we're reading...

--"Shut down all police movies and TV shows. Now" [Washington Post]

--"Where has Seal been? Watching your Instagram stories (and Plandemic)" [NY Times]

--How Ramy Youssef, creator of the first series about a Muslim-American family, reinvented TV" [AdWeek]

--"Pete Davidson and John Mulaney take us inside their “make-a-wish” friendship" [Vanity Fair]

--"Inside the revolts erupting in America’s big newsrooms" [NY Times]

--"ESPN has tried to focus on sports. But that changed with George Floyd" [Washington Post]

Today's birthdays: Tim Berners-Lee, 65, Kanye West, 43, Keenen Ivory Wayans, 62, Nancy Sinatra, 80, Gabrielle Giffords, 50.