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In 1997, a 13-year-old was beaten by white Chicago teens. A podcast challenges the racial narrative that followed
Yohance Lacour works on assembling a messenger bag in his Chicago studio on April 18, 2023. - John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/TNS

In 1997, a 13-year-old was beaten by white Chicago teens. A podcast challenges the racial narrative that followed

CHICAGO — The new podcast “You Didn’t See Nothin” takes a critical look at the media narrative that followed the 1997 Bridgeport neighborhood beating of 13-year-old Lenard Clark Jr., a Black child who lived in Chicago's Stateway Gardens public housing development, going to get air for his bike tire, by a group of white Bridgeport teens ages 17 to 19. Clark was beaten unconscious and suffered permanent brain damage, and the longest sentence handed out was eight years to Frank Caruso Jr., with two others receiving probation. The seven-part series by the Invisible Institute, a nonprofit journalis...

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