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Ohio bike shop offers refuge and community to Mauritanian immigrants

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Lockland had for decades been home to a small population of West Africans who’d come to Ohio in the 1990s because of political and racial oppression in Mauritania. The government was executing and exiling Black citizens; some had escaped slavery.

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