Erin Aubry Kaplan

Erin Aubry Kaplan is a Los Angeles journalist and columnist who has written about African-American political, economic and cultural issues since 1992. She is currently a contributing editor to the op-ed section of the Los Angeles Times, and from 2005 to 2007 was a weekly op-ed columnist – the first black weekly op-ed columnist in the paper’s history. She has been a staff writer and columnist for the LA Weekly and New Times Los Angeles. She is a regular contributor for many publications, including Salon.com, Essence, Black Enterprise, BlackAmericaWeb, Ms. and the Independent. She is also a regular columnist for make/shift, a quarterly, cutting-edge feminist magazine that launched in 2007.

Politics & Government12 years ago

Election 2012: Fear Strikes Out

Mitt Romney never had a chance. Even in the media maelstrom that painted an electorate divided not merely between Democrat and Republican, but between rote decency...
Society13 years ago

1992 Remembered: From Inglewood to Brentwood

(Editor’s Note: Frying Pan News continues its series about the 1992 unrest with this account told to us by Erin Aubry Kaplan.) I was living in...
Labor & Economy14 years ago

There Goes the Union

I grew up on the western edge of South Central, near Century Boulevard and Van Ness Avenue. My block was full of local government workers—sanitation, probation,...

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Erin Aubry Kaplan

Stories By Erin Aubry Kaplan

Election 2012: Fear Strikes Out

1992 Remembered: From Inglewood to Brentwood

There Goes the Union