Ricky Byrdsong Memorial Race Against Hate

Over


4,500 participants are expected to participate in the 14th annual

Ricky Byrdsong Memorial Race Against Hate, which will take place Sunday, June
16, 2013 at Long Field in Evanston and includes a 5K run/walk, 10K and youth mile.



The
Race honors the late Northwestern University basketball coach, who was killed
in his Skokie neighborhood by a white supremacist while walking with his young
children in June 1999. Created by his widow Sherialyn, the community event
honors Byrdsong’s legacy of working with young people and brings attention to
the need to combat hatred in all forms. In 2007 Sherialyn entrusted the future
stewardship of the Race to the YWCA Evanston/North Shore.



The 5K walk/run and
10K courses are fast, flat and scenic races down Sheridan Road and along the
shores of Lake Michigan -- with the 10K looping through the campus of
Northwestern University. The 10K race begins at 7:30 a.m., the 5K walk/run will
start shortly thereafter and the youth mile, an out and back course on Sheridan
Road, kicks off at 9:00 a.m. for youth