You Didn't See Nothin
USG Audio
The Pulitzer Prize and Peabody Award-winning “You Didn't See Nothin” follows Yohance Lacour as he revisits the story that introduced him to the world of investigative journalism. Part investigation and part memoir, Yohance examines how its ripple effects have shaped his life over the past quarter-century.
In 1997, Lenard Clark was beaten into a coma by a gang of older white teens simply for being Black in a white neighborhood. One of Lenard’s attackers was from a powerful Chicago family. The media quickly turned towards stories of reconciliation and racial healing, with cooperation by Black leaders and the attacker’s family.
Yohance wasn’t having any of it.
At the time of the attack, he was in his early 20s, writing plays, selling weed, and living at his dad’s house on the South Side of Chicago. Unable to stand by silently, he began working with a neighborhood newspaper to investigate the vicious hate crime. Reporting on the incident led him to grow increasingly disillusioned with journalism.
From USG Audio and the Invisible Institute – creators of the 2020 Pulitzer Finalist podcast “Somebody” – “You Didn't See Nothin” finds Yohance back in Chicago after a 10-year prison sentence, tracking down key players to examine how this story connects to our present moment.
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2 - Holler If Ya Hear Me
You Didn't See Nothin
02/15/23 • 34 min
Yohance begins to investigate the beating for a neighborhood newspaper, when his reporting gets some unwanted attention.
Credits
Host: Yohance Lacour
Producers: Bill Healy, Dana Brozost-Kelleher, Erisa Apantaku, Sarah Geis
Sound Design/Mixing and Music Supervision: Steven Jackson and Phil Dmochowski at the Audio Non-Visual Company
Original Music: Taka Yasuzawa
Executive Producers: Alison Flowers and Jamie Kalven (Invisible Institute) and Josh Bloch (USG Audio)
Production Support: Jennifer Sears and Josh Laolagi
Fact-checking: Angely Mercado
Key Art: Kenneth L. Copeland, Jr.
Special Thanks: Stacy Nzingha Hill
Archival audio in this episode include (in order of appearance): CBS Evening News; NPR/All Things Considered; YouTube; CNN; WMAQ; Sounds of Blackness; Twista, Faith Evans and Capitol Records; Mary J. Blige and MCA Records; The President’s Weekly Radio Address, WTTW, Dateline, NBC News, Fox Chicago, and Universal Pictures.
For more information, go to usgaudio.com.
To learn about the Invisible Institute’s human rights reporting, visit invisible.institute.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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1 - Young Black Male
You Didn't See Nothin
02/15/23 • 31 min
When a 13-year-old Black boy is attacked in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood, Yohance rallies his crew to avenge the beating.
Credits
Host: Yohance Lacour
Producers: Bill Healy, Dana Brozost-Kelleher, Erisa Apantaku, Sarah Geis
Sound Design/Mixing and Music Supervision: Steven Jackson and Phil Dmochowski at the Audio Non-Visual Company
Original Music: Taka Yasuzawa
Executive Producers: Alison Flowers and Jamie Kalven (Invisible Institute) and Josh Bloch (USG Audio)
Production Support: Jennifer Sears and Josh Laolagi
Fact-checking: Angely Mercado
Key Art: Kenneth L. Copeland, Jr.
Special Thanks: The Sebring Crew (Earl, Peewee, Willie, Ro, Jamaz) Kanesha Broadwater, Michael Clark
Archival audio in this episode include (in order of appearance): C-SPAN, CBS Evening News, NPR/All Things Considered, MSNBC/NBC News, WBEZ, Dateline, CNN, WTTW, Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures, NBC Evening News, NPR/Weekend Edition, YouTube, CBS Chicago, The Today Show, WMAQ, and Conus.
For more information, go to usgaudio.com.
To learn about the Invisible Institute’s human rights reporting, visit invisible.institute.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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7 - Staring Through My Rearview
You Didn't See Nothin
03/01/23 • 26 min
Nearly 50-years-old now, Yohance tries to make sense of what forgiveness means in the face of endless racial violence.
Credits
Host: Yohance Lacour
Producers: Bill Healy, Dana Brozost-Kelleher, Erisa Apantaku, Sarah Geis
Sound Design/Mixing and Music Supervision: Steven Jackson and Phil Dmochowski at the Audio Non-Visual Company
Original Music: Taka Yasuzawa
Executive Producers: Alison Flowers and Jamie Kalven (Invisible Institute) and Josh Bloch (USG Audio)
Production Support: Jennifer Sears and Josh Laolagi
Fact-checking: Angely Mercado
Key Art: Kenneth L. Copeland, Jr.
Special Thanks: Lenard Clark and Wanda McMurray
Archival audio in this episode include (in order of appearance): WTTW, CBS Chicago, Dateline, and MSNBC.
For more information, go to our website at usgaudio.com.
To learn about the Invisible Institute’s human rights reporting, visit invisible.institute.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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5 - Who Do You Believe In?
You Didn't See Nothin
02/22/23 • 37 min
The Black community becomes deeply divided over some of its leaders supporting the family of the attacker.
Credits
Host: Yohance Lacour
Producers: Bill Healy, Dana Brozost-Kelleher, Erisa Apantaku, Sarah Geis
Sound Design/Mixing and Music Supervision: Steven Jackson and Phil Dmochowski at the Audio Non-Visual Company
Original Music: Taka Yasuzawa
Executive Producers: Alison Flowers and Jamie Kalven (Invisible Institute) and Josh Bloch (USG Audio)
Production Support: Jennifer Sears and Josh Laolagi
Fact-checking: Angely Mercado
Key Art: Kenneth L. Copeland, Jr.
Special Thanks: Brother Randy Evans, Steve Bogira, the family of Joe Lattimore, Mindy Pugh and The Progressive Community Church Archives at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and Bob Berlin
Archival audio in this episode include (in order of appearance): CNN, Dateline, WBEZ, NPR, WMAQ, C-SPAN, and WTTW.
For more information, go to usgaudio.com.
To learn about the Invisible Institute’s human rights reporting, visit invisible.institute.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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3 - Heartz of Men
You Didn't See Nothin
02/15/23 • 28 min
News stories about the beating zero in on reconciliation and racial healing, as the attacker’s parents meet with prominent Black leaders.
Credits
Host: Yohance Lacour
Producers: Bill Healy, Dana Brozost-Kelleher, Erisa Apantaku, Sarah Geis
Sound Design/Mixing and Music Supervision: Steven Jackson and Phil Dmochowski at the Audio Non-Visual Company
Original Music: Taka Yasuzawa
Executive Producers: Alison Flowers and Jamie Kalven (Invisible Institute) and Josh Bloch (USG Audio)
Production Support: Jennifer Sears and Josh Laolagi
Fact-checking: Angely Mercado
Key Art: Kenneth L. Copeland, Jr.
Special Thanks: Mindy Pugh and The Progressive Community Church Archives at the Illinois Institute of Technology
Archival audio in this episode include (in order of appearance): The President’s Weekly Radio Address, CNN, Fox News, Fox Chicago, WMAQ, CBS Chicago, Getty Images NBC News Archives, Boys II Men UMG Recording Inc. and Motown Record Company, and NPR/All Things Considered.
For more information, go to usgaudio.com.
To learn about the Invisible Institute’s human rights reporting, visit invisible.institute.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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4 - Point the Finga
You Didn't See Nothin
02/22/23 • 31 min
As the trial approaches, a key witness goes missing and another is murdered.
Credits
Host: Yohance Lacour
Producers: Bill Healy, Dana Brozost-Kelleher, Erisa Apantaku, Sarah Geis
Sound Design/Mixing and Music Supervision: Steven Jackson and Phil Dmochowski at the Audio Non-Visual Company
Original Music: Taka Yasuzawa
Executive Producers: Alison Flowers and Jamie Kalven (Invisible Institute) and Josh Bloch (USG Audio)
Production Support: Jennifer Sears and Josh Laolagi
Fact-checking: Angely Mercado
Key Art: Kenneth L. Copeland, Jr.
Special Thanks: James Cutler, Steve Bogira, Elizabeth Smith and the Cook Clerk of the Circuit Court
Archival audio in this episode include (in order of appearance): WMAQ, Fox Chicago, Dateline, and WBEZ.
For more information, go to usgaudio.com.
To learn about the Invisible Institute’s human rights reporting, visit invisible.institute.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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6 - Never Had a Friend Like Me
You Didn't See Nothin
03/01/23 • 36 min
Yohance speaks to the Black minister about the notion that the attacker and his victim have become friends.
Credits
Host: Yohance Lacour
Producers: Bill Healy, Dana Brozost-Kelleher, Erisa Apantaku, Sarah Geis
Sound Design/Mixing and Music Supervision: Steven Jackson and Phil Dmochowski at the Audio Non-Visual Company
Original Music: Taka Yasuzawa
Executive Producers: Alison Flowers and Jamie Kalven (Invisible Institute) and Josh Bloch (USG Audio)
Production Support: Jennifer Sears and Josh Laolagi
Fact-checking: Angely Mercado
Key Art: Kenneth L. Copeland, Jr.
Special Thanks: Mindy Pugh and The Progressive Community Church Archives at the Illinois Institute of Technology
Archival audio in this episode include (in order of appearance): CNN, NPR/All Things Considered, WMAQ, Paramount Pictures, and WBEZ.
For more information, go to usgaudio.com.
To learn about the Invisible Institute’s human rights reporting, visit invisible.institute.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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You Didn't See Nothin
12/29/22 • 2 min
Part investigation and part memoir, “You Didn't See Nothin” follows Yohance Lacour as he revisits the story that introduced him to the world of investigative journalism, and examines how its ripple effects have shaped his life over the past quarter-century.
In 1997, Lenard Clark was beaten into a coma by a gang of older white teens simply for being Black in a white neighborhood. One of Lenard’s attackers was from a powerful Chicago family. The media quickly turned towards stories of reconciliation and racial healing, with cooperation by Black leaders and the attacker’s family.
Yohance wasn’t having any of it.
At the time of the attack, he was in his early 20s, writing plays, selling weed, and living at his dad’s house on the South Side of Chicago. Unable to stand by silently, he began working with a neighborhood newspaper to investigate the vicious hate crime. Reporting on the incident led him to grow increasingly disillusioned with journalism.
From USG Audio and the Invisible Institute – creators of the 2020 Pulitzer Finalist podcast “Somebody” – “You Didn't See Nothin” finds Yohance back in Chicago after a 10-year prison sentence, tracking down key players to examine how this story connects to our present moment.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Introducing - Homegrown: OKC
You Didn't See Nothin
03/06/24 • 46 min
Homegrown: OKC dives into a case of domestic terrorism from the past that’s really a warning about the future.
Back in 1995, there was a disaster that should have prepared us for January 6th and the political violence that we’re seeing today: the Oklahoma City Bombing.
Journalist Jeffrey Toobin reveals the story behind Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City Bombing, and right-wing extremism in America - how a decorated army veteran became consumed with rage, how he somehow went underground and built a bomb that damaged fifty blocks in a modern city, and how everything that led to the horror of April 19th, 1995 is still very present in America.
Homegrown: OKC is a USG Audio podcast produced by Western Sound and Esmail Corp. Based on the book “Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Rightwing Extremism” by Jeffrey Toobin. For more episodes of Homegrown: OKC, please visit here.
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You Didn't See Nothin
10/29/24 • 35 min
Will Johnnie Veal, convicted of the murder of two police officers in 1970, be granted parole after fifty years in prison? How can he convince the parole board he’s reformed when he insists he’s innocent? What is prison time even supposed to accomplish? These are the questions that propel The Parole Room forward as it builds toward Johnnie’s twentieth parole hearing after nineteen rejections.
The Parole Room is an intimate journey with Johnnie, a deep dive into the criminal legal system, and a parole room drama—taking listeners behind the curtain to hear tense deliberations as they unfold. The docuseries is vivid, emotional, and complex, bringing new questions and insights about the U.S. justice system and the country as a whole. The producer of You Didn’t See Nothin, Bill Healy, produced this project, and You Didn’t See Nothin’s host, Yohance Lacour consulted. This is episode 1. Listen to the full series on Audible.com/Parole.
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How many episodes does You Didn't See Nothin have?
You Didn't See Nothin currently has 17 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary and Podcasts.
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The episode title '2 - Holler If Ya Hear Me' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on You Didn't See Nothin is 31 minutes.
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The first episode of You Didn't See Nothin was released on Dec 29, 2022.
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