The LA central library’s Octavia Lab provides free access to recording studios, 3D printers, video editing software. All you ...
"From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing will grab you, haunt you, enrage and ...
Octavia Butler's prescient novels offer a roadmap for survival in our changing world. Discover how her Afrofuturist works inspire hope and action.
Shaper of God, an exhibition by American Artist at Brooklyn’s Pioneer Works art centre, is the culmination of a four-year project inspired by the life and work of Octavia E. Butler. The show’s ...
This serves as a reading room where visitors can study books by and about Butler, as well as related topics, including science fiction and fact, Black culture and California history. The reading ...
Rebecca Castillo is a video creator and special projects lead for Los Angeles Times’ High School Insider and other Public Affairs programs. A Southern California native, she is an alumna of Swarthmore ...
Throughout Black History Month, BCC put on several events showcasing Black culture and identity. These events included food, ...
Science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote in her 1993 novel "Parable of the Sower" that Feb. 1, 2025, would be a time of fires, violence, racism, addiction, climate change, social inequality and ...
The West Coast is on fire. Sea level rise is slowly eating away at our shores, and record-breaking floods have come for the Midwestern states. Wealth ...
Gideon Lewis-Kraus explores whether we’re witnessing the end of children. Plus: Jon Lee Anderson on growing up in a U.S.A.I.D ...