As host of the seven-part podcast “You Didn’t See Nothin,” Yohance Lacour revisits the twists and turns of the Lenard Clark story as they intertwine with the twists and turns of his own life. BlackVoicesWTTW
In 1997, 13-year-old Lenard Clark and a friend rode their bikes into the deeply White Bridgeport community. There, a group of young White men beat Lenard into a coma simply for being Black in a White neighborhood.
At the time, Lacour was 23 and living in Hyde Park. He said though racially motivated attacks were not unusual at the time, the details of Clark’s beating deeply affected him. “My producers and I felt like I had an interesting perspective on race relations in America in Chicago, having been out of the system, out of the real world for so long. I was in prison for 10 years,” Lacour said. “And so that ability to look back just offered me a unique perspective, and we felt like just a story of me being a 23-year-old untrained journalist diving into a case that big was also a story in itself.
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