Remembering the 300 Man March: Darnyle Wharton interviewed by J.M. Giordano

We’re so excited to see you at the Baltimore Book Festival, where you can find us at our booth on Sept. 28-29. On Sunday, September 29th, we are thrilled to be hosting the 31st St. Stage!

At 3pm, join us for a special commemorative event for the 10-year anniversary of the 300 Man March in Baltimore. Darnyle Wharton, activist and Co-Organizer, and Squad Member of the Baltimore Peace Movement, will be interviewed by photojournalist J.M. Giordano, about Wharton’s remembrance of the 300 Man March. Wharton, his fellow activists with Baltimore Peace Movement, and marchers were featured in Giordano’s book 13-23: How a Summer of Violence Sparked a Decade of Activism.

About Darnyle Wharton: As a husband and father of two beautiful girls, and an advocate for non-violence, peace, love, and light,  Darnyle Wharton is one of the co-organizers for the Baltimore Ceasefire 365 Movement alongside the  founder, Erricka Bridgeford, co-founder, Ogun Gordy, and the other co-organizers, Letrice Gant, Jakia  Jason, and Michelle Sellers. He is also a member of the all Black men community support group, Band of  Brovaz, where he serves as the Communications officer. 

He is the Northern District Community Liaison for the Baltimore City State’s Attorney Office. He is a part  of a team of community liaisons who give the residents of Baltimore information and updates on the  community engagement initiatives, resources, and policies of the State’s Attorney Office while getting  feedback and concerns from them about public safety and what the office is doing to improve the crime  situation in the city. Darnyle Wharton is a trained mediator for the Baltimore Community Mediation  Center where they strive to help Baltimore City with conflict Resolution through mediation. 

Before this, he was a member of 300 Men March on their Street Engagement Team and Village Keepers,  a community support group that formed after 300 men March was disbanded. He also serves as the  President of the Men’s Ministry group, M.O.V.E. (Men of Empowerment and Valor), at Empowerment  Temple AME Church, where he currently worships. 

Darnyle’s favorite phrase, is, Nothing changes if nothing changes. His fight to decrease Baltimore’s  murder rate by inspiring and invigorating the community to get involved continues on and will be a part  of what he does forever.

About J.M. Giordano: This year he was short-listed for the National Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Prize and will be featured in American Photography Annual 40 for his second book 13-23 (Nighted Life Press), covering a decade of Baltimore’s homicide rate. Work from the book was also awarded a Curator’s Choice award at Paris Photo His international photographs covering the collapse of the steel industry are the subject of a solo show at the Museum of Industry in Baltimore. He is at work on his next book Trumpland (Nighted Life Press), due out in October.