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.
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There's growing buzz that Inglewood is L.A.'s next Big Thing. Sounds good, but shifting our image is going to take much more than a new and improved Forum.
Marching against police brutality as the year comes to a close felt like a date with destiny.
Crenshaw is not the convenient, and personal, street it usually is for me. It may never be again.
CicLAvia came to Leimert, and South Central this past weekend. It was quite a ride.
The ongoing crisis of faith prompted by Ferguson isn't just about the police, or even about racial justice. It's about something much more fundamental than that.
The Dunbar was the crown jewel of Central Avenue, until it wasn't. A new play by the Robey Theatre Company explores the magnificence of the Dunbar, but also the fatal flaw of history that brought it down.
Just when I think things can't get any worse, they get bigger. But at least the truth I used to keep at bay is hitting home.
Inglewood's schools chief is here to turn things around. But what he said recently reinforces a status quo that goes deeper than budgets and test scores.
The Tuesday elections were like 2004 all over again--but worse. California carries on, but the rest of the country is reeling from GOP revenge.
I haven't been to a dance club in about 15 years, and never to a single release party. This week I had some pleasant revelations about both.
When you don't feel safe where you live, when is it time to call it quits? Like any relationship, it's complicated.
USC is South Central's influential neighbor, a topic of lively discussion at a recent panel held on campus. But what does that mean these days?