Daryle Lamont Jenkins

Daryle Lamont Jenkins
Jenkins in 2018
Born (1968-07-22) July 22, 1968 (age 56)
Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
OccupationActivist
EmployerOne People's Project
Political partyIndependent

Daryle Lamont Jenkins (born July 22, 1968) is an American political activist, best known for founding One People's Project, an organization based in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Jenkins serves as its executive director.

Early life

Jenkins was born in Newark, New Jersey and raised in nearby Somerset, New Jersey. He graduated from Franklin High School and served in the United States Air Force.[1] Upon returning from the service, he became a part of the punk rock movement, producing two public access programs about the scene as well as political activism, which caused some conflict with his position as a reporter and an editor for local newspapers.[2]

Career

Jenkins identifies as an anarchist.[3][4]

Jenkins has been documenting and writing about right-wing individuals and organizations since 1989, while he was still serving in the Air Force as a police officer.[5]

After Planned Parenthood sued anti-abortion activist Neal Horsley and others, alleging that their "wanted"-style posters of abortion doctors were a threat, Jenkins said in an interview. "We didn't see it as a weapon," and further asserted that "We never used it as a threat. We wanted to be open about what we saw and this allowed us to be open."[6]

Jenkin's One People's Project gained a reputation for publicly documenting hate groups, and their activities,[7] Jenkins has also gained a reputation for helping neo-Nazis leave those circles.[8] Jenkin and the project worked with Bryon Widner, whose story as a reformed skinhead was featured in the documentary Erasing Hate (2011)[9] and the motion picture Skin (2018).[10]

Donald Trump's campaign for the presidency and eventual victory put Jenkins, the One People Project, and the entire Antifa movement into the spotlight.[11][4]

Jenkins has appeared on numerous television news programs, articles, and documentaries, notably The Montel Williams Show, A Current Affair, The Rachel Maddow Show, and on AM Joy with Joy Reid. In 2018, the documentary Alt-Right: Age of Rage, which features Jenkins confronting white nationalist Richard Spencer, premiered at South by Southwest.[12]

References

  1. ^ Biography of Daryle Lamont Jenkins Archived 2019-07-22 at the Wayback Machine, One People's Project. Accessed July 22, 2019. "Recent movies like Alt Right- Age of Rage and the Academy Award-nominated short film Skin have shown some of the work done by our founder Daryle Lamont Jenkins. Born in Newark, New Jersey and raised in nearby Somerset, New Jersey, graduating from Franklin High School."
  2. ^ "Daryle Lamont Jenkins is Speaking at James Madison University – Idavox". idavox.com. Archived from the original on June 17, 2019. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
  3. ^ Pearce, Matt (March 1, 2017). "This anarchist and 'anti-fascist' activist is using facts to go after the far-right fringe". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on February 13, 2023. Retrieved February 13, 2023.
  4. ^ a b Illing, Sean (September 1, 2017). ""White supremacists are more afraid of us than we are of them."". Vox. Archived from the original on April 17, 2018. Retrieved April 16, 2018. For the last couple of years, I've increasingly come to think of myself as an anarchist, but for many years I simply identified as a leftist
  5. ^ Ellis, Emma Grey (March 26, 2017). "Is It OK to Dox a Nazi? Antifascists Think So". Wired. Archived from the original on April 16, 2018. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
  6. ^ "To Doxx a Racist". The New Republic. July 26, 2018. Archived from the original on January 8, 2021. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
  7. ^ Nuzzi, Olivia (November 6, 2015). "The Black Man Confronting White Supremacists on Their Own Turf". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on March 15, 2024. Retrieved April 18, 2018 – via www.thedailybeast.com.
  8. ^ "Showing Hate an Open Door". February 15, 2018. Archived from the original on April 19, 2018. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
  9. ^ "Ex-skinhead endures agony to shed past". CBS News. November 1, 2011. Archived from the original on February 5, 2024. Retrieved May 6, 2024 – via Associated Press.
  10. ^ Bramesco, Charles (September 10, 2018). "Skin review – Jamie Bell swaps nazism for love in moral tale of far right". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on December 19, 2023. Retrieved May 6, 2024.
  11. ^ Goldberg, Michelle (August 22, 2017). "One Antifa Leader Has Stepped Up to Explain the Shadowy Group's Violent Tactics to the World". Slate.com. Archived from the original on April 18, 2018. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
  12. ^ Ramos, Dino-Ray (March 7, 2018). "'Alt-Right: Age Of Rage' Clip: SXSW Docu Explores Battle Between The Left And Right In Trump's America". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on December 24, 2020. Retrieved April 17, 2020.