Erin Aubry Kaplan

contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, former columnist for the LA Times, author of the book “Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line: Dispatches From a Black Journalista”

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Journalist and columnist at KCET and contributing editor at the Los Angeles Times; author of Black Talk, Blue Thoughts and Walking the Color Line: Dispatches from a Black Journalista and the forthcoming I Heart Obama, an exploration of Obama's cultural and historical meaning to black Americans; board member of the UCLA Black Alumni Association

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KCRW talks about diversifying newsrooms with Erin Aubry Kaplan. She’s an opinion writer for The New York Times. She was the first regular Black op-ed columnist for the LA Times.

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