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 a contributing writer to the New York Times opinion pages and also the Los Angeles Times, where from 2005 to 2007 she 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 a regular contributor for many publications, including Politico, kcet.com, Salon.com, Essence, and Ms.
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