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Lenard Clark: A Black Boy's Story

In 1997, Johans LeCour was a college student slash weed dealer on the south side of Chicago selling $10 bags of weeds to the homies. That's when he learned about what happened to a little black boy named Lenard Clark. A group of teenagers is charged with beating a black boy to a pulp and then boasting that they kept their neighborhood white. The story made national news. Then almost overnight, the new story's turn to racial reconciliation and forgiveness.

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