Ricky Byrdsong Race Against Hate

On a summer night in 1999, Ricky Byrdsong, an African-American men’s basketball coach at Northwestern, was walking with two of his children down a residential street in Skokie when he was shot and killed by a self-proclaimed white supremacist. A well-known and beloved public figure, Ricky Byrdsong’s murder shocked the community and served as a […]