The LA central library’s Octavia Lab provides free access to recording studios, 3D printers, video editing software. All you ...

Octavia Butler's prescient novels offer a roadmap for survival in our changing world. Discover how her Afrofuturist works inspire hope and action.

"From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing will grab you, haunt you, enrage and ...

Hill approaches archives not merely as repositories of the past but as active sites of worldbuilding that shape futures.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

People are not incorrect about Octavia Butler predicting the future, but they’re not always clear about what kind of future she was envisioning. It’s not the fires or drug use or tumbling ...