Photo by Bill Healy
Twenty-six years ago this week, a 13-year-old Bronzeville boy looking to put air in his bicycle tire became the victim of a vicious, racist attack that haunted his Chicago neighborhood for years.
“You Didn’t See Nothin” is a seven-part podcast that dives into the case of Lenard Clark. Produced by USG and the Invisible Institute, the podcast is narrated by journalist Yohance Lacour, who takes a look back at life as a young man during that tumultuous time.
At the time, Lacour, who grew up in Hyde Park, was a 23-year-old budding journalist and student at the University of Illinois Chicago living at home with his father and selling weed to keep money in his pockets. Once the business started to grow, he left school behind, he said. That decision set him on a path that led to a multi-year prison sentence.