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 ...
In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted would ...
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 ...
When the Eaton Fire erupted, the Mountain View Cemetery and Mortuary in Altadena faced a rare struggle: racing to save ...
The devastating fires burning Los Angeles stand as a monumental example of nature’s profoundly destructive potential when ...
The Altadena fire wiped out much of a historic Black enclave in this picturesque town in the San Gabriel Valley.
For many African Americans who built their lives and businesses in historically Black communities like Altadena, the combined ...
The Eaton fire ravaged a historic Black community in Altadena. Now, people are using the words of one of its most famous ...