Larry Aubry

Larry Aubry (1933 – May 16, 2020) was an American columnist for the Los Angeles Sentinel for 33 years, and an African-American activist in South Central Los Angeles.[1][2][3]

As an activist, Aubry focused his work on improving conditions for dangerously disenfranchised Black communities through coalition-building with other cultural and ethnic groups. His activism was spurred by his early experiences at Fremont High School in the 1940s, where he was one of the first Blacks to attend. As Charlotta Bass also documents in her book, Forty Years: Memoirs from the Pages of a Newspaper, Blacks were being hung in effigy from trees outside the school to protest integration. Aubry went on to become a social service worker, mainly in probation, but in a long career of community activism, at various times he was a member of the Inglewood School Board; a vice-president and education chair of the L.A. NAACP; a board member of Multicultural Collaborative and the Inglewood Coalition for Drug and Violence Prevention; a vice-president of the A. Philip Randolph Institute; and a member of the Reparations United Front and the Committee to Save King Drew Medical Center.

He began writing for the L.A. Sentinel in the early 1980s and was honored by the Southern California Library in 2005 in recognition of a lifetime of being unafraid to speak the truth, building bridges, and working to bring justice to Los Angeles through his outstanding journalism as a columnist for the Sentinel. Larry Aubry regularly contributed articles about the lives of Black people living in Los Angeles to the LA Progressive,[4] Larry Aubry was also a contributor to the LA Progressive until his death in May 2020.