Demystifying Media At The University Of Oregon

About Our Guest: Erin Aubry Kaplan is a Los Angeles native who writes about herself, her community, and the city, often all three simultaneously. A longtime journalist and essayist, she won the PEN Center West award for journalism in 2001 for "Blue Like Me," a personal exploration of the link between depression and racial struggle that she wrote for the LA Weekly. In 2005 she became the first black opinion columnist in the history of the Los Angeles Times, and remains a contributing op-ed writer.Find Erin Aubry Kaplan Online and In Print:Personal WebsiteNY Times Author PageKCET Author PageSalon Author PageKCRW Author PageMuck RackAntioch University Faculty PageTwitterSelected Works:"Blue Like Me"The Butt  Issue 1I Heart ObamaBlack Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line (New England Library Of Black Literature) "Cicely Tyson: The Actor Who Redefined Black Characters and Black Beauty""The Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict Reinforces a Long American Tradition: White Animus Against Black Grievance""Simone Biles a