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Feb 2023
34m 28s

2 - Holler If Ya Hear Me

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About this episode

EPISODE 2: 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.

 

For more information, go to usgaudio.com.

 

To learn about the Invisible Institute’s human rights reporting, visit invisible.institute.

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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