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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The tragedy in South Carolina is reverberating in Southern California -- but honestly, sometimes it's hard to tell.
Artist Mark Steven Greenfield may be retired, but he's not out of the game. The retrospective on display at CAAM has given him new inspiration.
Inglewood sues a local critic of Mayor Butts for improperly using footage of city council meetings that it claims to own. What's wrong with this picture?
Another young black man was senselessly killed in L.A. this week. Not a surprise, but certainly a tragedy on par with the tragedies of Ferguson, Baltimore and here.
Director Ava DuVernay recently shared in the celebration of black history -- and her-story -- with students, faculty and community at Cal State L.A.
In the charter-versus-public schools fight, I'm firmly on the side of public schools. But in Los Angeles and everywhere else, we really shouldn't be having this fight at all.
Underneath it is a deeper question about why, in a country predicated on the pursuit of happiness, black men and happiness feels like such a contradiction.
La Brea is an avenue whose time hasn't quite come, but it's getting there. I'm not talking about the La Brea that we already know, but about the other end of La Brea that starts at the dramatic rise at Stocker Street in Baldwin Hills.
A celebration in Leimert Park of "urban black female poet" Wanda Coleman is cause for rumination about the recent events in Baltimore -- and here.
South L.A., formerly South Central, is looking at becoming the even more streamlined SOLA. If only we paid as much attention to the place as we do to what it's called.
The TSA has agreed to no longer single out black hair for security searches at airports. I guess some progress on racial profiling is better than none.
What happened in South Carolina confirmed for my class of black seniors what they'e known or experienced their whole lives. It also exposed divisions of opinion about what to do now.