Cakewalk
Erin Aubry Kaplan is journalist, essayist, and poet who writes about politics, culture, and identity with an eye to L.A.'s black communities. She has been a staff writer for the L.A. Weekly and opinion columnist for the L.A. Times. She was born in South Central and lives with her husband and animals in Inglewood.
Cakewalk:
The finer pleasures of Big Lots, a store for our times.
Cakewalk:
The mayoral runoff is almost upon us, and every four years I think about how great it would be if all of us could vote for mayor. By "all of us" I mean everybody in the county.
Cakewalk:
It's been 21 years since the April 29 that will live in local infamy. But what are those who weren't even around back then think about it?
Cakewalk:
Tony Wafford fights the good fight -- mostly alone -- for HIV awareness in places that need it the most.
Cakewalk:
My neighbors and new friends are definitely moving, something I just can't seem to accept.
Cakewalk:
Growing up in the '70s, the Dodgers were my rock stars. Things have changed.
Cakewalk:
My neighbors are leaving. But why they're leaving creates a loss that will be felt for a long time.
Cakewalk:
I find that black support for marriage equality is real, but it's not a given--or a gimme.
Cakewalk:
The ten-year anniversary of the Iraq War is hardly cause for celebration -- so what is it cause for?
Cakewalk:
Black L.A. could certainly use change. Maybe we're not thinking big enough.
Cakewalk:
Walking around an Inglewood landmark after a long time way made me think about the city's mixed past and its still unclear future
Cakewalk:
What does it mean to be black in L.A.? Not what it used to mean -- and therein lies the challenge for the future.
Cakewalk:
Jobs are the foundation of home -- and for too many people, the foundation is shaky and getting shakier.
Cakewalk:
What Christoper Dorner's rampage says about love and idealism.
Cakewalk:
Black History Month is upon us again. Why do we keep missing the point?
Cakewalk:
From Compton down to El Segundo, blacks just can't seem to live in peace.
Cakewalk:
The Morningside Park Chronicle is a new paper that's determined to get Inglewood right.
Commentary:
The breakup of a grassroots campaign to save Crenshaw High points to the racial failures of all of us
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