Erin Aubry Kaplan

Erin Aubry Kaplan is a Los Angeles journalist and columnist who has written about African-American political, personal and cultural matters since 1992. She is a contributing writer to the New York Times and Los Angeles Times op-ed pages, and from 2005 to 2007 was a weekly opinion columnist for the L.A. Times – the first black weekly opinion columnist in the paper’s history. She currently teaches literature in the Bridge program Antioch University Los Angeles. You can find more of her work at LA Weekly, KCET, & others.

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Equity + Indigenous Reciprocity

Breaking Us Down: Why ‘Self-Care’ is a Paradox for Black People in America

How the loneliness and grief of the COVID crisis add layers to the undertaking of 'self-care'