NEW YORK - Early Wednesday morning, 40 high school students from across the city sat in Barclays Center, talking about what being a New Yorker meant to them.
The new program is part of a partnership between the Brooklyn Nets and the Anti-Defamation League with the goal of building bridges across communities.
The conversations involved identity, bias prevention and the value of diversity.
Featuring leaders across different faiths, organizers hoped to foster a love of collaboration despite their differences.
ADL says it does anti-bias and anti-hate work in more than 300 schools across the city, impacting close to 200,000 students.