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.
Martin would have been on the right side of Prop 8.
Will the worst of Times ever get better?
For so many blacks in Los Angeles, coming west was the great escape.
Compensating a dog who's been done wrong is trickier than I thought.
Black people have been under siege in L.A. before, but it's getting ugly--again
For me, it's a day like any other--in some ways worse--but Day One of the Obama administration is a good day.
Not driving for a day has its hard lessons--and a reward or two
New beginnings sure sound like the first month of the year-- but are they?
Hope and change in '09 starts with public service--including police.
Coming here wasn't a family obligation, it was a vacation.
When it comes to running a school district with conviction, will L.A. ever learn?
Looking at race through the rose-colored--or black, or brown--lens of theater is actually a reality check.