As Frieze Los Angeles shines a spotlight on art in the city, one community, long facing institutional apathy, calls for ...

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 ...

The Altadena resident turned her bookstore, Octavia's Bookshelf, into a support hub to help her community during the recent ...

ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena cemetery where the science fiction and Afrofuturism author is buried did ...

Altadena is one of those rare places in Los ... Between 1950 and 1960, the Black population rose from less than 1% to 4%. Octavia Butler, a celebrated science fiction writer, and Sidney Poitier ...

The Altadena fire wiped out much of a historic Black enclave in this picturesque town in the San Gabriel Valley.

This partnership project between Frieze and Black Trustee Alliance records testimony of the Los Angeles community in the wake ...

Over 30 years ago, Octavia Butler imagined a Los Angeles ... The Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena, home to Butler’s final resting place, was caught in the path of the Eaton fire but sustained ...

Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due are leaning into Butler’s Afrofuturistic vision to save hearts “in the midst of stress.” By Aaron Foley In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler ...

I've never felt so nervous while flying back to my hometown in Southern California. I also feel a sense of urgency among ...