The California African American Museum showcases a positive look at the resilient and vibrant Black community of Altadena, ...

Influential underground artist Corbin gives a rare interview about new album 'Crisis Kid,' Clown on Stage Tour and channeling depression into art.

Before The Parable of the Sower became a staple on syllabi across the country, Octavia E. Butler was quietly living and writing in Lake Forest Park. From 1999 until her death in 2006, she made her ...

Man who killed Oakland city councilmember’s son in Los Angeles sentenced to 35 years to life The 21-year-old USC student was killed during a botched robbery in 2019 ...

If you have yet to venture into Downtown Los Angeles, you're missing out — it's one of the best things to do in all of Southern California. Teeming with museums and opulent architecture, this ...

At a Founders’ Day 2025 event at The Huntington on March 26, 2025, Octavia E. Butler’s work was celebrated, explored and discussed by an engaging panel of experts in front of a sold-out crowd ...

For Octavia Butler, LA’s downtown public library was a place of refuge. Butler was born in Pasadena, lived in Altadena, and did a lot of her writing at the Central Library in Downtown Los Angeles. She ...

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted would ravage Los Angeles in 2025? They showed up. That political chaos she wrote ...

By Aaron Foley In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted would ravage Los Angeles in 2025? They showed up.

LOS ANGELES — Nearly 40,000 acres have burned in Southern California in the last two weeks, with at least 25 lives lost, over 12,000 structures destroyed, and tens of thousands of people displaced.

The phrase “Octavia tried to tell us,” which began to gain momentum in 2020 during the pandemic, has once again resurfaced, in part because Butler studied science and history so deeply.