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Before his final presidential race, William Jennings Bryan came to Roanoke to deliver a key campaign speech. Here’s why.

William Jennings Bryan in 1908. Courtesy of Library of Congress.

His speech in Roanoke was widely distributed nationwide, but the key part had a different message intended only for the ears of white Southerners.

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‘Because your black’: State accuses Akron landlord of racial discrimination

Ada Street houses.

The Ohio Civil Rights Commission accused a Fairlawn-based company that owns local residential properties and its property manager of unlawfully discriminating against a tenant in an East Akron property because she is a Black mother of minor children.

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