Erin Aubry Kaplan
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Journalist and op-ed columnist Erin Aubry Kaplan's first-person accounts of politics and identity in Los Angeles, with an eye towards the city's African American community, appear every Thursday on KCET's SoCal Focus blog.
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The finer pleasures of Big Lots, a store for our times.
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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.
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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?
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Tony Wafford fights the good fight -- mostly alone -- for HIV awareness in places that need it the most.
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My neighbors and new friends are definitely moving, something I just can't seem to accept.
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Elson: Thanks for reminding me of that fact about Davey Lopes. I'd love to see him again, though I'm frankly afraid he won't remember me and then I'll be crushed! Not sure I could take that.....
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Elson: Thanks for reminding me of that fact about Davey Lopes. I'd love to see him again, though I'm frankly afraid he won't remember me and then I'll be crushed! Not sure I could take that.....
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Growing up in the '70s, the Dodgers were my rock stars. Things have changed.
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My neighbors are leaving. But why they're leaving creates a loss that will be felt for a long time.
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I find that black support for marriage equality is real, but it's not a given--or a gimme.
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The ten-year anniversary of the Iraq War is hardly cause for celebration -- so what is it cause for?
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Black L.A. could certainly use change. Maybe we're not thinking big enough.
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Walking around an Inglewood landmark after a long time way made me think about the city's mixed past and its still unclear future
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What does it mean to be black in L.A.? Not what it used to mean -- and therein lies the challenge for the future.
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Jobs are the foundation of home -- and for too many people, the foundation is shaky and getting shakier.
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What Christoper Dorner's rampage says about love and idealism.
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Black History Month is upon us again. Why do we keep missing the point?
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From Compton down to El Segundo, blacks just can't seem to live in peace.
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The Morningside Park Chronicle is a new paper that's determined to get Inglewood right.
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The breakup of a grassroots campaign to save Crenshaw High points to the racial failures of all of us
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Quentin Tarantino was well represented -- and then some -- at a recent discussion of his latest movie in Leimert Park.
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On New Year's I found myself strategizing about change with somebody I didn't know -- not a bad way to start out
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For African Americans, the more things change, the more they stay the same
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The racially fascinating history of lovely Leimert Park is now told in a book -- but the story's not over.
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Social mobility used to mean you moved when and where you wanted to. No more.
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Columnist Erin Aubry Kaplan learns that when animal rescue doesn't work, it hurts.
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The future of Crenshaw High, and the movement for educational justice in Los Angeles, hangs in the balance
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Grocery shopping on Thanksgiving in my neighborhood can be frustrating, but not for the usual reasons
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In tough times, saving dogs and self-preservation can be the same thing.
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Election Day turned out to be no sweat, but for returning President Obama, the days after will be another story.
Recent Actions from Erin Aubry Kaplan
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Elson: Thanks for reminding me of that fact about Davey Lopes. I'd love to see him again, though I'm frankly afraid he won't remember me and then I'll be crushed! Not sure I could take that.....
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Elson: Thanks for reminding me of that fact about Davey Lopes. I'd love to see him again, though I'm frankly afraid he won't remember me and then I'll be crushed! Not sure I could take that.....
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DJ, thanks for the fascinating recap of the still-unfinished history of the Watts Towers and the artist who made them. It seems to me the stewardship of the Towers is a hot potato because Watts itself is a community L.A....
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C: Thanks for your feedback! The point I was making is that 'frizzy and curly' (and kinky and nappy..) are almost always viewed as undesireable, especially on colored people, even famous ones. The reaction to it tends to be, 'God,...
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The finer pleasures of Big Lots, a store for our times.
-
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.
-
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?
-
Tony Wafford fights the good fight -- mostly alone -- for HIV awareness in places that need it the most.
-
My neighbors and new friends are definitely moving, something I just can't seem to accept.
-
Growing up in the '70s, the Dodgers were my rock stars. Things have changed.
-
My neighbors are leaving. But why they're leaving creates a loss that will be felt for a long time.
-
I find that black support for marriage equality is real, but it's not a given--or a gimme.
-
The ten-year anniversary of the Iraq War is hardly cause for celebration -- so what is it cause for?
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Black L.A. could certainly use change. Maybe we're not thinking big enough.
