Daryle Lamont Jenkins

American political activist (born 1968)
Daryle Lamont Jenkins
Daryle Lamont Jenkins in Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 17, 2018
Born (1968-07-22) July 22, 1968 (age 55)
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 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.[3]

After anti-abortion activist Neal Horsley published a website that compiled a list of almost 200 active abortion providers and celebrated any act of violence against the providers and encouraged site visitors to take matters into their own hands, Planned Parenthood sued Horsley and other anti-abortion activists that produced similar tactics with "wanted"-style posters of abortion doctors as being a threat to them.

Although Planned Parenthood won the case they lost on appeal when a federal court ruled that the First Amendment protected the Nuremberg Files. That verdict — although overturned on appeal — paved the way for what would eventually be called "doxxing" in 2001, according to Jenkins in an interview. "We didn't see it as a weapon," he said. "We never used it as a threat. We wanted to be open about what we saw and this allowed us to be open."[4]

One People's Project gained a reputation of publicly documenting hate groups, and their activities,[5] but in addition Jenkins has also gained a reputation for helping neo-Nazis leave those circles behind,[6] among them Bryon Widner, whose story was featured in the documentary Erasing Hate (2011), which has been turned into a feature-length motion picture titled Skin (2018).

While One People's Project and Jenkins had gained some notoriety over the years, it was not until Donald Trump's campaign for the presidency and eventual victory that put him, the organization, and the entire Antifa movement into the spotlight.[7][8] 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.[9] Jenkins identifies as an anarchist.[10][8]

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 2019-06-17. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "To Doxx a Racist". The New Republic. 26 July 2018. Archived from the original on 8 January 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  5. ^ Nuzzi, Olivia (6 November 2015). "The Black Man Confronting White Supremacists on Their Own Turf". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on 15 March 2024. Retrieved 18 April 2018 – via www.thedailybeast.com.
  6. ^ "Showing Hate an Open Door". 15 February 2018. Archived from the original on 19 April 2018. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  7. ^ Goldberg, Michelle (22 August 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 18 April 2018. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  8. ^ a b Illing, Sean (1 September 2017). ""White supremacists are more afraid of us than we are of them."". Vox. Archived from the original on 17 April 2018. Retrieved 16 April 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
  9. ^ Ramos, Dino-Ray (7 March 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 24 December 2020. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  10. ^ Pearce, Matt (1 March 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 13 February 2023. Retrieved 13 February 2023.

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