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.
The debate over health care reform is already over--just ask the folks who travelled to Inglewood from all the over the county and well beyond to get the services they too desparately need.
You can't go home again, or back to school. But reunions take you someplace you can never get to in what's become your real life. And that's a good thing. .
Bad things happen to good people, including good people you know well. But it's never, ever something you're prepared for, especially when that bad thing is murder.
It's Gardena's Hollywood moment--or so Brian O'Neal hopes. He and his band the Bus Boys jammed to raise money for a film about the little city that did.
Observations from the ground (you know, where Sotomayor's from) about Judge Sonia Sotomayor's long-anticipated turn in the hot seat
When it comes to a painting career, there's are only two ways to think of the present: There's no time for it, or, it's the only time there is.
Liveblogging MJ - 9AM...Somebody comments on how nice and sunny it is downtown, how typically L.A. that is, which annoys me.
The emotional legacy of Michael Jackson made me do something I almost never do in L.A.-- go out into the city looking for company who felt like I did
When is a dance just a dance? The answer is way beyond black and white
The difference between L.A. and Boston is so much more than a few thousand miles--try driving around there and see, But the agony was worth the trip.
In a city, state and country going mad, I stopped to try and help a dog regain its place in the world--and almost did.
Inglewood's been the epicenter of more than just earthquakes lately.