NY Liberty team reads the Emma Lazarus sonnet ‘The New Colossus’

In New York Harbor, 300 feet up, stands a French immigrant with a poem on her pedestal celebrating the inflows of tired and hungry and poor people from all over the planet that has made this nation a vibrant, productive, complicated, pluralistic place, the envy of the world.

The New York Liberty honor Emma Lazarus and Lady Liberty every time they take the court, but today, the team is reciting her poem as a reminder of its message and the promise of America for so many around the world.

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Center Han Xu hails from China. Guard Marine Johannès, from France. Forward Jonquel Jones, from the Bahamas. Forward Nyara Sabally, from Germany. Head coach Sandy Brondello is from Australia. Others were born here — but have family roots elsewhere. Like their namesake, these women stand tall.