After Orlando, 'Race Against Hate' Takes On New Significance
CHICAGO (CBS) -- This coming Sunday, several thousand people are expected in Evanston for the 17th annual Ricky Byrdsong Memorial Race Against Hate - and a man who'd been one of Byrdsong's good friends is making a special trip back for the race.
As WBBM's Steve Miller reports, Ricky Byrdsong was a personal hero of Lyle Foster.
Byrdsong was the first African American men's basketball coach at Northwestern.
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In 1999, he was shot and killed by a white supremacist.
Beyond being a hero, Foster says, Byrdsong was a friend.
"At that time, in 1999, this was almost the beginning of this kind of event that we see far too often today. It was like, when you tell people this happened, at first it's like it was unbelievable. But now it's almost like, OK another one."
Foster doesn't live in the Chicago area any more, but he says he's coming back for the Race Against Hate this Sunday.
This year, he says, takes on more significance because of Orlando.
Foster says, "We want to see love win."
