Email Author Erin Aubry Kaplan

2004 Stories by Erin Aubry Kaplan

• Shedding Light on the AIDS Blackout

  published December 9, 2004

  Tony Wafford, director of the county-funded Palms Residential Care Facility for minorities living with HIV/AIDS, is not... More >>

• No Second Act?

  published December 2, 2004

  Mervyn Dymally sounds crushed. This is not characteristic of the Compton-area assemblyman, a veteran of electoral politics and... More >>

• Right To Life

  published November 18, 2004

  THE MOVEMENT HAD BEEN GROWING for months but reached critical mass in the last several weeks when campaign paraphernalia started... More >>

• He Could Have Been a Contender

  published November 4, 2004

  Illustration by Ron Dunn Fortune is a fickle mistress. A year and a half ago, 60-year-old Bernard Parks was a man with the wind at his back.... More >>

• Jason Seward: The Big Mo

  published October 21, 2004

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• The Revolution Will Not Be Compromised

  published October 14, 2004

  In terms of rehearsal space, it’s hard to do worse than the gymnasium at the Denker Avenue Recreational Center in South L.A. near USC... More >>

• The Coondocks

  published September 30, 2004

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• You’ve Been Served

  published September 16, 2004

  If I needed any more proof that we’ve all been living in two Americas for the past 20 years or so, Serena Williams gave it to me a couple o... More >>

• Code Red

  published September 16, 2004

  Maxine Waters is mad. That’s not unusual for the congresswoman, whose public indignation over matters affecting her South-Centra... More >>

• Pastor, Present, and Future

  published September 9, 2004

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• Just the Way She Is

  published September 9, 2004

  Photo by Larry Hirshowitz Being among the world’s most renowned dancer-choreographers, Twyla Tharp cuts a striking, still-athletic figure wit... More >>

• Bringin' Da Funk

  published August 5, 2004

  Photo by Joeff Davis The Democratic convention is over, and there’s little left to say, except: Damn, we’re good. In yet anoth... More >>

• Oh, Brothers

  published July 15, 2004

  When brothers Ron and Richard Harris relocated their coffeehouse-theater operation from Hollywood to Leimert Park in 1999, it seemed... More >>

• New Jack Activists

  published July 8, 2004

  Photo by Ted Soqui Crenshaw High senior Frances Martin is hoarse from shouting, but the 17-year-old is composed as she takes the microphone to... More >>

• People vs. the Police — Take Five

  published July 8, 2004

  In the aftermath of the Stanley Miller beating — a videotape of yet another police beat-down of a black man that joins a collection featurin... More >>

• Red, White and Blues

  published July 1, 2004

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• Breach of Security

  published June 17, 2004

  Jono Schafer of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) fondly recalls the good old days of 2000, when striking Los Angeles janitors... More >>

• No Laughing Matter

  published May 27, 2004

  I almost hate to bring this up — though if I don’t, I’ll be committing the very crime of omission that Bill Cosby feels most of us do-good... More >>

• Dale Lya Pierson, Something Else, Again

  published May 27, 2004

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• Freedom Rider

  published May 20, 2004

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• Kill Will

  published April 29, 2004

  For the last several years, I’ve been going to a salon where black people of note around the city gather in a living room to discuss th... More >>

• Cry, Freedom

  published April 29, 2004

  Nigerian-born Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s debut novel, the first work by an African writer to mak... More >>

• Homebodies

  published April 22, 2004

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• East Coast–West Coast Rap

  published April 15, 2004

  Writer types might consider quixotic at best, oxymoronic at worst, any new publication that calls itself a bicoastal literary... More >>

• Wal-Mart’s Blackout

  published April 8, 2004

  I’m a big believer in accountability — especially in the era of Bush II — but after watching Tavis Smiley this past Tuesday... More >>