Young Black Male from You Didn't See Nothin'
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4.8 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Yohance Lacour is writing plays and selling weed on the south side of Chicago in the 90's. When a young black boy nearby is attacked in "the wrong part of town" Yohance knows he must respond not just with words, but action.
Sensitive listeners should know that this story references a racist hate crime and contains racist language.
You Didn’t See Nothin’ is a production of the Invisible Institute and USG Audio.
The podcast is written and reported by Yohance Lacour with Bill Healy, Dana Brozostkelleher, Erisa Apantaku and Sarah Geis.
Sound design, mixing, and music supervision by Steven Jackson and Phil Dmochowski at the Audio Non-Visual Company. Original music by Taka Yasuzawa and Alex Sugiura.
Executive produced by Alison Flowers and Jamie Kalven for the Invisible Institute, and Josh Bloch for USG Audio. Production support by Jennifer Sears. Fact-checking by Angely Mercado.
Archival audio used in this episode is from C-Span, CBS Evening News, NPR, MSNBC, NBC News, WBEZ, Dateline, CNN, WTTW, Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Youtube, CBS Chicago, The Today Show, WMag, and Conus.
Listen to the rest of You Didn't See Nothin’ wherever you get your podcasts or at usgaudio.com
Season 14 - Episode 29
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| 0:00.0 | If you like radically honest stories, you'll love the podcast. |
| 0:15.2 | Risk. |
| 0:16.2 | Risk is where people tell true stories they never thought they dared to share. |
| 0:20.8 | Like the one about the guy who cooked and served his own leg to his friends as tacos. |
| 0:26.0 | Or the woman who found out the person she was sharing kinky fantasies with online was |
| 0:30.7 | her dad. |
| 0:31.7 | If you think you've heard it all, just wait till you hear risk. |
| 0:36.4 | Available now on the Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:54.1 | This week |
| 0:55.1 | we're going back to the future. |
| 0:57.1 | A horrible crime took place in 1997. |
| 1:00.1 | They kicked off a chain of events in our narrator's life. |
| 1:04.1 | Writer Johansson Cor and our friends at the Invisible Institute take us back in time with |
| 1:10.8 | a new podcast called You Didn't See Nothing. |
| 1:14.6 | Because Johans chronicles real world events. |
| 1:17.6 | Sins of listeners should know that it references your racist hate crime and has racist language. |
| 1:24.6 | This program is a journey. |
| 1:27.3 | Half investigation, half memoir. |
| 1:29.9 | And it's not like anything I've heard before. |
| 1:34.0 | Johans, take it away. |
| 1:39.5 | Hello Chicago. |
| 1:48.6 | The night Obama won, I was in a county jail out in the boonies waiting to be sentenced. |
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