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.
What we don't say about about the realities of black/Latino relations can hurt us.
The Crenshaw Subway Coalition is making a difference -- really.
The end of the school year compels me to write another story -- though certainly not the last -- about one of LAUSD's most successful but most beleaguered campuses.
The finer pleasures of Big Lots, a store for our times.
The mayoral runoff is almost upon us, and every four years I think about how great it would be if all of us could vote for mayor. By "all of us" I mean everybody in the county.
It's been 21 years since the April 29 that will live in local infamy. But what are those who weren't even around back then think about it?
Tony Wafford fights the good fight -- mostly alone -- for HIV awareness in places that need it the most.
My neighbors and new friends are definitely moving, something I just can't seem to accept.
Growing up in the '70s, the Dodgers were my rock stars. Things have changed.
My neighbors are leaving. But why they're leaving creates a loss that will be felt for a long time.
I find that black support for marriage equality is real, but it's not a given--or a gimme.
The ten-year anniversary of the Iraq War is hardly cause for celebration -- so what is it cause for?