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.
Is it possible for films to humanize, not iconicize, black gangstas? The Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center is proving that it can be done.
When is a movie not just a movie? When its protagonist is an obese black girl trying to wax redemptive in the most unforgiving circumstances possible.
Being thankful for your health is such a cliche--until you don't have the means to cure what ails you.
Civic hope comes in many forms--including oil, acrylic, wood and other tools of the art trade that aren't exactly associated with Inglewood. But we're getting there.
We have a new top cop in L.A. that everybody agrees on. But that shouldn't be the whole story.
More than money, dogs are great social equalizers for us humans. Most of the time.
One more place to shop should have been good news in an otherwise dreary time. But a trip to the reopening of Fox Hills Mall gave me more pause than I expected
In my neighborhood, living the good life requires constant negotiation with the truth. Sometimes truth gets the upper hand.
What's Inglewood got to hide about its police department that we don't already know? Only the report that the city ordered but is loath to release knows for sure.
Who knew that an auto repair place could be that little bit of heaven that makes life in your town eminently liveable?
I know we're post-equality, but surely we can make some argument for making the schools better--the same kind of better--for everybody.
If you can't vacation where you already live, maybe you ought to move. Nothing like a violent incident in your neck of the woods to remind you of that.