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.

  • 39 minutes 48 seconds
    Introducing Mission K-Pop

    Caty Szeto is a woman with a dream: to become a K-Pop superstar. The 23-year-old Asian American is traveling from her home in LA to South Korea’s capital Seoul to attend a K-Pop academy. There she’ll do hardcore training in singing, dancing and styling. All this is to prepare for make-or-break auditions for K-Pop entertainment agencies. If she makes it, Caty could be like all those chart-topping idols who travel the world, perform to legions of fans and make millions. But this quest has its challenges. Caty finds out about ageism in the industry, where many new idols are in their teens. Then she comes face-to-face with incredibly specific K-beauty standards while navigating being a foreigner in K-Pop. Over just three months, our host journalist Haeryun Kang follows Caty to see if she can overcome these obstacles and reach K-Pop stardom.

     

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    16 October 2025, 7:00 am
  • 43 minutes 11 seconds
    Crime Story: Yohance reflects on You Didn’t See Nothin

    Yohance sits down with Kathleen Goldhar, the host of CBC’s new podcast Crime Story, to talk about Lenard Clark’s case and the many questions he grappled with while making You Didn’t See Nothin. 


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    30 October 2023, 3:21 pm
  • 26 minutes 48 seconds
    7 - Staring Through My Rearview

    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.

     

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    1 March 2023, 8:01 am
  • 36 minutes 13 seconds
    6 - Never Had a Friend Like Me

    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.

     

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    1 March 2023, 8:00 am
  • 37 minutes 12 seconds
    5 - Who Do You Believe In?

    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.

     

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    22 February 2023, 8:01 am
  • 31 minutes 24 seconds
    4 - Point the Finga

    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.

     

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    22 February 2023, 8:00 am
  • 28 minutes 58 seconds
    3 - Heartz of Men

    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.

     

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    15 February 2023, 8:02 am
  • 34 minutes 28 seconds
    2 - Holler If Ya Hear Me

    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.

     

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    15 February 2023, 8:01 am
  • 31 minutes 46 seconds
    1 - Young Black Male

    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.

     

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    15 February 2023, 8:00 am
  • 2 minutes 29 seconds
    Trailer

    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.

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    29 December 2022, 9:37 pm
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