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You Didn’t See Nothin

USG Audio

United States

You Didn’t See Nothin is a fiercely personal true‑crime narrative that doubles as a moral reckoning—Yohance Lacour uses archival grit and memoiristic reflection to peel back layers of prejudice, reconciliation, and media complicity in a 1997 hate crime on Chicago’s South Side. It’s storytelling with wit and fire, where the personal stakes lend each revelation the weight of a lived drama.

"From the opening 20 seconds, where we hear Obama embracing victory in 2008 while host Yohance Lacour listens from jail, You Didn’t See Nothin is special. A Chicago playwright who did ten years for selling weed, Lacour revisits the bashing of a black boy in the city’s South Side in 1997 and interrogates racism, power and his own life story with a particular poetry and presence." -

Siobhan McHugh, The Greatest Menace/The Last Voyage of the Pong Su/Phoebe's Fall/Heart of Artness/Wrong Skin

You Didn’t See Nothin’ is a powerful reimagining of true crime and audio journalism, driven by Yohance Lacour’s personal reckoning with the 1997 hate crime against Lenard Clark. Rather than merely recount the crime, Lacour unpacks its media coverage, the racial implications, and his own role in the story. Through concise, thirty-minute episodes, the podcast combines archival footage and Lacour’s deeply reflective narration to confront uncomfortable truths about systemic injustice. The show resists easy resolutions, urging listeners to question the narratives of reconciliation and media complicity. You Didn’t See Nothin’ is a haunting reminder that storytelling isn’t neutral—it's a call to bear witness, challenge complicity, and demand accountability.