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.
As the election approaches, a group of seniors reminds me that the black struggle to matter in politics is nothing new.
Mitt Romney insulted a lot of people with the remarks he made about certain Americans. But why don't we talk about who he really meant?
Putting ethnic communities on the city map is much more than a notion.
Losing hundreds of trees in Inglewood and South Central to create a temporary path for a space shuttle is the unkindest cut.
Seven years ago, Hurricane Katrina displaced my family in New Orleans -- and my own sense of a home I never lived in
Our annual block club party was more than just a get-together, it was proof once again that the neighborhood can survive in bad times.
Losing a long-time business on Market Street in Inglewood feels like losing it all.
Where were you August 11, 1965? Musician Brian O'Neal remembers, in song and story, the day everything changed.
Black elected officials are becoming rare in L.A. and California. So how do we retain them without giving the questionable ones a pass?
Anglo-Saxon is the new -- I mean, old -- American.
Crenshaw is no Sunset Boulevard -- and yet they are connected.
Narrative nonfiction is certainly personal, but it's also political, historical -- and racial. When I put all those things together in a lecture last month, minor hell broke loose.