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 does it mean to be part of the 99%? Sometimes you have to see it up close.
Psychologically, the city of Seal Beach will recover from the terrible shootings that left eight people dead. But what about the rest of us?
You would think supporting the needs of poor folk would be uncontroversial, but for Tavis Smiley and Cornel West, it's been nothing less than fighting words.
Faulkner had a point--the past is never the past, especially when it's about race and reconciliation.
After all these years, affirmative action is still being met with an opposite--and unequal--negative reaction
Lending a hand to a sick friend with few resources can take on a life--and a schedule--of its own.
Remembering is one of our favorite national pastimes. But when it comes to unresolved business like 9/11, it's tricky at best, deceptive at worst.
It's taken twenty years, but I've gotten hip to getting around town--and out of town--on trains. And I'm making connections that I didn't expect
The Walk-In Closet thrift store n Inglewood promotes high fashion and work opportunities for all--and I mean all.
The poor state of black males in public schools isn't exactly news or at the top of anybody's fix-it ilst --and that's the problem
I'd never attended a wedding on a weekday, and rarely at night. So going to a wedding at 6 p.m. this past Monday felt exciting, rule-breaking, but odd.
Three years ago, homeless Michael Reed and his dog Topaz turned tragedy into a small triumph. Today, tragedy threatens again.