Erin Aubry

Gordon Parks is a photojournalist, art photographer, author, composer and director best known for his groundbreaking films The Learning Tree and the original Shaft. A 30-year retrospective of his photography, “Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks,” is currently showing at the California African-American Museum through December 30. On......

The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line. --W.E.B Du Bois, 1903 The overriding experience of the black American has been grief and sorrow and no man can change that fact. His grief has been realistic and appropriate. What people have so earned a period of......

Sweetie and I had been dating almost a year when he announced that we were going to make a pilgrimage to the Grand Canyon. He had been there once, on a motorcycle caravan, and described that first view with a solemnity reserved for his guitars. I was thrilled; I’d lived......

The Holiday Bowl, an institution on Crenshaw Boulevard and a unique outpost of cultural exchange for 42 years in metropolitan Los Angeles, has been sold and is closing its doors on Sunday, though a community group is vowing to fight for its preservation. The sprawling bowling alley and coffee shop,......

With all due respect to abiding faith and greater rewards, it‘s rough being dead. You can’t stick up for yourself. You can‘t raise a protest when those least deserving to have been in your company show up at your memorial service, so eager for their turn at the podium they......