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 if your beloved community isn't somebody else's?
For the last ten years or so I've been on a listening mission, straining to connect with my fellow Americans
The madness and miracles of December are all in the eye of the beholder
Discussing politics with anybody these days leads you straight to an intimacy you don't necessarily want.
Now we can ask: What does Barack Obama mean for blacks?
Eating our words in 2008.
Growing up in L.A, I associated the Santa Ana winds with a very specific time of year.
If the quality of any town, or place, is truly measured by how it treats its most vulnerable citizens, Inglewood has far to go.
I love fashion as much as anybody, especially in these financially dire times that make the looky-loo escapism of haute couture more attractive than it already is.
I must say that, all things considered, I've been rich my whole life. Not in the way of money or things, because I never had much of either and still don’t. I mean rich in the way of what I didn’t have.