CLEVELAND, Ohio – More than 100 years ago this month, a Black man was killed by an angry white mob, who chased him through the streets of Cleveland after he was accused of taking some cherries from a farmer’s tree.
That man and that killing will be commemorated in Cleveland this weekend, part of a larger, nationwide effort to remember the past while informing the future.
The man’s name was John Jordan, and he is the only known victim of a lynching in Cuyahoga County, according to the Equal Justice Initiative, an Alabama-based nonprofit that works to end mass incarceration and racial injustice…