Mass shooting prelude to Ricky Byrdsong Memorial Race against Hate (IL)
Khadrice Rollins, Summer Editor
June 25, 2016
For the 17th annual Ricky Byrdsong Memorial Race Against Hate, a number of participants told organizers they had registered in light of recent events, race director Trimmy Stamell said.
This was the second consecutive year that a mass shooting was the main focus of national headlines in the week leading up to the race, and both last year’s shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and the recent shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, were acknowledged during this year’s event. There was also a moment of silence for the victims of the Orlando shooting before the 10K and 5K races ...
Ricky Byrdsong was murdered in 1999 when a 21-year-old white supremacist shot him while Byrdsong was jogging in his Skokie neighborhood.
Sherialyn Byrdsong talked about how people should recognize that they are not that different from each other at the end of the day. She reminded runners that all people bleed the same color and added that people need to start respecting human life more ...
http://dailynorthwestern.com/2016/06/25/city/mass-shooting-prelude-ricky-byrdsong-memorial-race-against-hate-for-second-straight-year/
