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Erin Aubry Kaplan

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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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A crowd gathers in the rotunda of the Georgia State Capitol for the Count Every Vote protest in Atlanta, in 2018. | Kevin Lowery
Directed by Grace Lee and Marjan Safinia, “And She Could Be Next” tracks the campaigns of six women of color who sought office as well as the efforts of all the seasoned organizers and ordinary folks who made those campaigns possible.
Mary Hooks of Southerners on New Ground leads the Count Every Vote protest at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2018. | Kevin Lowery
Directed by Grace Lee and Marjan Safinia, “And She Could Be Next” tracks the campaigns of six women of color who sought office as well as the efforts of all the seasoned organizers and ordinary folks who made those campaigns possible.
Protest Trump
Martin Luther King shaped how I saw the country and what I expected from it.
Santa Monica crosswalk
Los Angeles never rid itself of its own brand of segregation that partly comes from having so much space.
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Stephen Townsend's "The Hood" was born out of the '92 civil unrest and returns to fight more nebulous evils
Amid the cheering of the return of the NFL to L.A., I have a nagging question: what will it mean for Inglewood?
The big little town that nobody thought about is on our minds now. What does that mean for the California dream?
In the volatile public vs. charter fight, one LAUSD campus is just trying to stay put.
Inglewood's new farmer's market--one of an increasing number in So Cal-- isn't all it could be. But it's a start.
Diagonal streets in 1939 aerial photograph of Los Angeles show clashing grids. Courtesy of the California Historical Society Collection, USC Libraries.
Navigating a difficult summer on an uncelebrated boulevard became a matter of life and death.
Alan and Erin Kaplan, 2006
In teaching the lessons of race, Alan Kaplan built a relationship with the whole world. That included me.
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A documentary detailing the tragic case of 17-year-old Jordan Davis is made even more powerful by the post-screening presence of his father, Ron Davis.
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