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.
Can AM talk radio heal? 'Coast to Coast' has made a believer out of me, one night at a time
The life and times--good and otherwise--of Lillian Mobley, mother of South Central
L.A. is famous for neighbors not knowing each other. But approving of who your neighbors are is a must--and if they're poor and black, you might have to do some serious soul-searching.
As blacks sound alarms about the new redistricting plan that reflects their declining influence, I wonder what black representation really means
I had always loved dogs, but hadn't sought out others who did because they weren't my 'people.' Cathy Rubin changed all that.
The summer Olympics promised hellish, round-the-clock traffic.
When is an act of racial hostility not really an act of racial hostility? Ask Santa Monica High School.
Calling all techno-stressed people of the 21st century: going back to a basic can be a good thing
Who--and what--will rule at Westchester High School?
The politics of having a good time.
School's almost out for the summer... and Inglewood's almost out of an education-minded neighbor that it sorely needs
Los Angeles is an emptier place without renaissance man Cliff Hall in it. But being out in the Inland Empire is better than being nowhere--sometimes.