“I’ve always said L.A. is a small town wrapped in a big one…L.A. is a terminus city, a destination that people from other places wind up and that natives don’t tend to leave at all, or not for very long,” says Erin Aubry Kalpan in her October 6th article “Driving Down Memory Lane” (KCET). Kaplan has been writing with a specific focus on Los Angeles since 1992, when she joined the LA Times as a beat reporter in the wake of the LA Riots. Her new book, “Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and walking the Color Line: Dispatches from a Black Journalista,” is a compilation of her articles over the years.

Discussing her book for the first time, Erin Aubry Kaplan spoke with Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar in an exclusive interview:

Martina Steiner and Bipasha Shom recorded this interview.