Since the Los Angeles fires began last week, “Parable of the Sower” and other Octavia Butler works written decades ago have been cited for anticipating a world wracked by climate change, racism and ...
The Eaton Fire narrowly spares the cemetery housing Octavia Butler’s grave, as Altadena—the historic Black community she once ...
In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 ...
Considered one of the first Black female science fiction writers, Octavia Butler’s body of work could be described as made-up ...
As wildfires ravaged parts of Los Angeles, readers said the science fiction writer predicted this in her 1993 work and its ...
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The fires stand as a monumental example of nature’s destructive potential when accelerated by ...
The Altadena fire wiped out much of a historic Black enclave in this picturesque town in the San Gabriel Valley.
When the Eaton Fire erupted, the Mountain View Cemetery and Mortuary in Altadena faced a rare struggle: racing to save ...
For many African Americans who built their lives and businesses in historically Black communities like Altadena, the combined ...
The phrase, which gained momentum in 2020, has resurfaced, in part because it can seem like Octavia Butler was more than a ...
The Eaton fire ravaged a historic Black community in Altadena. Now, people are using the words of one of its most famous ...
Octavia’s Bookshelf, which survived the Eaton Fire, has become a haven and a hub for mutual aid resources and support.