Erin Aubry Kaplan
Erin Aubry Kaplan is an author, journalist and essayist who has been writing about black Los Angeles and wider issues since 1992. She teaches creative nonfiction at Antioch University Los Angeles and current events at the OASIS center in the Crenshaw district.
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Hollywood Park is vanishing--not a surprise, but heartbreaking anyway. The promise of progress doesn't ease the pain .
Hip-hop, epithets and all, is America's music -- and that's not necessarily a good thing, as I discovered recently shopping in a tony boutique in Larchmont Village.
Ferguson has taken us back to necessary, if overly familiar, discussions about relations between black people and police.
After months of intense campaigning, George McKenna's faithful gathered last week to celebrate a historic win against a better-funded opponent, Alex Johnson.
The intensifying race between George McKenna and Alex Johnson has become a study in negative campaigning.
Better education and air quality, as well as not splitting up the state are what I want to see for the future of California.
It isn't a holiday for everyone. It can be a real drag for dogs and anyone else who counts themselves in the ninety-nine percent.
Employment is still sluggish, with no improvement in sight. I know you aren't what you do, but the joblessness is getting awfully personal.
Spring, with its days of overcast, was always a cause for disappointment for me and my ideas of a perfectly sunny SoCal. The drought has changed all that.
The 54-year-old former drug lord of South Central is still in the business -- of self-fulfillment and community improvement, that is.
George McKenna is the most reluctant candidate for public office that I've ever met. I think he's also the most qualified.
Memories of grade school are usually warm and fuzzy. Except when they also tell a story of integration that never had a chance.