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]
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]
^Biography of Daryle Lamont JenkinsArchived 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."
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abIlling, 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