Erin Aubry Kaplan
About Me:
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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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.
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My neighborhood acted like a real community -- people pitching in to help me out for the good of us all. Too bad affirmative action is no longer that model.
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The space shuttle event in the hood was flying high, but the main photo was grounded.
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A luncheon celebrating weighty women in L.A. had a menu of discussion topics that was, well, low-calorie
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We are not over racism but we are eager to leave off addressing it via public policy of any kind.
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What was President Obama really missing in the presidential debate yesterday? The real lessons of Hollywood acting.
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As the election approaches, a group of seniors reminds me that the black struggle to really matter in politics -- Obama notwithstanding -- is nothing new.
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Mitt Romney insulted a lot of people with the remarks he made about certain Americans. But why don't we talk about who he really meant?
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Putting ethnic communities on the city map is much more than a notion.
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Losing hundreds of trees in Inglewood and South Central to create a temporary path for a space shuttle is the unkindest cut.
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Seven years ago, Hurricane Katrina displaced my family in New Orleans -- and my own sense of a home I never lived in
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Our annual block club party was more than just a get-together, it was proof once again that the neighborhood can survive in bad times.
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Losing a long-time business on Market Street in Inglewood feels like losing it all.
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Where were you August 11, 1965? Musician Brian O'Neal remembers, in song and story, the day everything changed.
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Black elected officials are becoming rare in L.A. and California. So how do we retain them without giving the questionable ones a pass?
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Anglo-Saxon is the new -- I mean, old -- American.
Recent Actions from Erin Aubry Kaplan
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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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What Christoper Dorner's rampage says about love and idealism.
-
Black History Month is upon us again. Why do we keep missing the point?
-
From Compton down to El Segundo, blacks just can't seem to live in peace.
-
The Morningside Park Chronicle is a new paper that's determined to get Inglewood right.
-
The breakup of a grassroots campaign to save Crenshaw High points to the racial failures of all of us
-
Quentin Tarantino was well represented -- and then some -- at a recent discussion of his latest movie in Leimert Park.
-
On New Year's I found myself strategizing about change with somebody I didn't know -- not a bad way to start out
-
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.
