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.
Black L.A. could certainly use change. Maybe we're not thinking big enough.
What does it mean to be black in L.A.? Not what it used to mean -- and therein lies the challenge for the future.
Jobs are the foundation of home -- and for too many people, the foundation is shaky and getting shakier.
What Christoper Dorner's rampage says about love and idealism.
Black History Month is upon us again. Why do we keep missing the point?
From Compton down to El Segundo, blacks just can't seem to live in peace.
The Morningside Park Chronicle is a new paper that's determined to get Inglewood right.
The breakup of a grassroots campaign to save Crenshaw High points to the racial failures of all of us
Quentin Tarantino was well represented -- and then some -- at a recent discussion of his latest movie in Leimert Park.
On New Year's I found myself strategizing about change with somebody I didn't know -- not a bad way to start out
For African Americans, the more things change, the more they stay the same