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.
Johnny Otis is gone, but what he meant to black music and black consciousness should live forever.
Will we never learn?
What will the loss of CRA's mean to South Central and other long-blighted places across the state? The answer, like the future of these places, isn't really clear.
On Christmas Eve, I was feeling good about home, the holiday, even eleventh-hour shopping. And then a troubling reality bit.
An encounter with old-school deejay and black music historian Tom Reed is an education, and a reminder that preserving black L.A. history is a job never done.
What does it mean when a neighbor that I routinely sawy but didn't really know moves out? A lot more than I realized.
I've been pretty hard on Inglewood, but lately I've been more accepting of what it is and what it's not. Chalk it up to the spirit of the holidays, and to the spirit of the changing times.
This week, L.A. police were a case study in how to quell a protest without ticking anybody off. Quite a feat. But is the best we can do in terms of progress?
We again need a path out of this darkness of inequality.
Former UCLA Vice Chancellor Winston Churchill Doby, who died a week ago, was a statesman for black educational equity--even as the idea fell out of favor--all his life
"California" and "dream" are two words that have always gone together well. But that's changing, and for some people the golden ambition has become a nightmare
For me and a lot of other people, the diamond in Darby Park in Inglewood was about so much more than baseball.